Germany has halted a three-decade-long decline in its birth rate, with data showing that the trend has started to reverse, statisticians said on Friday.

Perhaps the body electorate has swiftly changed since the 1970s and the policy prescriptions Hillary Clinton proposed then no longer seem radical. As a parent, they do to the author. We don’t need to be taxed, to then be told by bureaucrats how to raise our child, she says.

As much as we try, we can’t predict or protect our children from everything. And if that day ever comes when our children share a story where they need us to believe them.

Fewer Chinese people are getting married, a shift with profound implications for China’s economic and social life. The decline in marriages means a decline in the number of babies, and potentially less spending on homes, appliances and other family-related purchases — the kind of spending China needs to drive economic growth.

A former distinguished dean from Stanford University, Julie Lythcott-Haims teaches parents how to handle parenting without going overboard.

Since so many families have zero savings and since super-savers can pull up the average, the median savings, or those at the 50th percentile, may be a better gauge. The median for all families in the U.S. is just $5,000, and the median for families with some savings is $60,000.