--- --- # American Parents Are Miserable by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jun 22, 2016 4:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Jun 22, 2016 4:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**American parents are miserable.**](http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2016/06/us-has-largest-parental-happiness-gap.html) By Drake Baer in the Science of Us **2\.** [**Are we asking the right questions about America’s big banks?**](http://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-06-22/why-the-fed-s-stress-tests-aren-t-credible) By the editors of Bloomberg View **3\.** [**Facial recognition tech is on the rise. Should we all delete our selfies?**](http://www.dailydot.com/politics/facial-recognition-privacy-selfies/) By Ben Dickson in the Daily Dot **4\.** [**Does America’s internet discourse undermine or strengthen our national identity?**](https://medium.com/migration-issues/could-enationalism-be-a-thing-c678cb607f8c#.8lbflqimx) By Lyman Stone in State of Migration **5\.** [**Understanding the power of the crappy summer job.**](http://qz.com/703049/teens-summer-jobs-unglamorous/) By Jenny Anderson in Quartz  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ American Parents Are Miserable ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4377956/american-parents-are-miserable/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4377956/american-parents-are-miserable/"},"headline":"American Parents Are Miserable","datePublished":"2016-06-22T16:00:31.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:59:51.533Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4377956/american-parents-are-miserable/","keywords":["Innovation","Parenting","Jobs","politics","selfies","Banks"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4377956/american-parents-are-miserable/","name":"American Parents Are Miserable"}}]}] ```