P Kyle Stanford —Professor in the Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science at the University of California-Irvine —joins Vance and Rachel to discuss his co-author study of people’s estimations of the dangers that unattended children face.

Listen to learn about:

No Child Left Alone: Moral Judgments about Parents Affect Estimates of Risk to Children

Black Dads Are Doing Best of All

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Samantha L. Tornello—Associate professor of Human Development and Family Studies at Penn State and parent of 2—joins Vance and Rachel to discuss their research on how LGBTQ couples divide housework and childcare.

Listen to learn about:

https://pure.psu.edu/en/publications/transgender-and-gender-non-binary-parents-pathways-to-parenthood

This episode’s title pays homage to Dr. Charlotte J. Patterson, PhD, without whom this episode would not exist.

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This is the second of our two-part conversation with special guests Tiffany Holland and Maria Rosales about multiple pathways to parenthood, including some of the ones that they took.

Special guests Tiffany Holland and Maria Rosales, who have appointed each of us as parts of their chosen family, talk to us about multiple pathways to parenthood, including some of the ones that they took.

Special guest expert Amy Reed-Sandoval helps us understand what philosophy for children is, and why parents (and the rest of us) ought to encourage children's philosophical interests.

Who are we?  Why are we here?

Special guest expert Selena Wolf-Berkley helps us understand racism as a social determinant of health during pregnancy and childbirth, and how we can make institutional changes to better support pregnant people and their families.

In the pilot episode of Nurturing Minds, co-hosts Rachel and Vance briefly introduce themselves and discuss parenthood and childhood as topics of philosophical interest and importance.