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MILLENNIAL MOMS AND DADS

Katy Steinmetz’s Oct. 26 cover story, on the newest generation of parents, prompted Kristin Iversen of Brooklyn magazine to write that reading it was a “crazy, looking-into-a-mirror” moment. Some millennials, like Evan Fowler of Cincinnati, were offended by what they saw as “bogus stereotypes” about young parents–like turning to the Internet rather than to experts for child-care information–while others defended their cohort’s characteristics as a win for children. Being highly educated and treating working women with respect are “solid parental traits,” said Catherine Holly of Elmhurst, Ill. Meanwhile, Merrel Wilkenfeld of Fort Mill, S.C., cautioned that the younger generation still has something to learn–for example, about using smartphones at meals. “Long term, [their] kids will not have honed any conversational skills,” he wrote.

THE DEMOCRATIC DEBATE

Many Bernie Sanders supporters took issue with Joe Klein’s column declaring Hillary Clinton the winner of the first Democratic primary debate. Klein’s description of Sanders’ ideology as a “political fetish” was “a cheap shot by a political insider,” wrote Dale McCarty of Boerne, Texas. But Roger DeVore of Dunlap, Ill., thought Sanders had missed a chance to criticize Clinton. “It is not hearing about the ‘damn emails’ that has people sick and tired,” he wrote. “It is hearing Ms. Clinton’s ever changing stories about them.”

FROM THE ARCHIVES

Arthur Miller, who would have turned 100 in October, wrote dozens of plays and won the Pulitzer Prize. Along with his professional accomplishments, he also remains famous for his short marriage to Marilyn Monroe. LIFE’s Paul Schutzer photographed the pair shortly after their courthouse ceremony in June 1956, capturing the start of a union that ended five years later. See more at life.time.com.

UP NEXT

In a new anthology from TIME Books, more than 70 of today’s most prominent spiritual thinkers offer insights, interpretations and meditations on the questions Jesus asks in the Bible. Edited by Elizabeth Dias, a religion and politics correspondent for TIME, with a foreword by TIME editor Nancy Gibbs, What Did Jesus Ask? features a range of Christian voices and includes contributors such as Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, musician Amy Grant, pastor Rob Bell and writer Marilynne Robinson. What Did Jesus Ask? is available Oct. 27.

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