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Even if leaders don’t intend to be models for others, they are. Because leaders have been hired or promoted into visible roles, they are representations of what an organization values and [...]

Decades of a one-child policy led to a 4-2-1 problem, in which a sole young adult must become the breadwinner for not only his two parents but also his four grandparents. [Chad de Guzman – [...]

Domestic workers play an invaluable role in many societies, providing essential direct and indirect care services to private households. As care workers, they work at the foundation of our [...]

The results show it is imperative for healthcare professionals to prioritize family presence and integrate religious guidance to ensure patients receive comprehensive care that addresses their [...]

While we should enact affordable child care and parental-leave policies because they’re good for society, we should be under no illusions that they will change that trajectory — we will need [...]

Housing has become unaffordable for most young people in large cities amid the sluggish economic recovery, with 11.58 million college graduates set to enter China’s workforce this year. [Meredith [...]

Japan lost 800,000 people last year, with deaths outpacing births at a record rate. The government has plans to reverse this trend but many fear its efforts will fail. [Julian Ryall – DW, 3 [...]

While population growth implies almost by definition higher emissions, at least in the short term, the intrinsic inertia in demographic processes implies that solutions to reduce emissions need [...]

They were meant to bring us closer together. But the more we learn about their effects, the more we see that they come with a price. [Wendy Wang and Michael Toscano – Institute for Family [...]

Migration flows can respond to policy changes in unpredictable ways, as a result of complex environments of the underlying drivers, agency of prospective migrants and the way in which they make [...]