EditorialOdin SmallCarter, left, and DeMarcus Carter, who has co-parented Odin since she was 2, packing their car for a road trip to Minneapolis, where Odin was scheduled for a medical appointment, in Fort Dodge, Iowa on June 5, 2023. (Jamie Kelter Davis/The New York Times)
EditorialOdin SmallCarter, left, and DeMarcus Carter, who has co-parented Odin since she was 2, packing their car for a road trip to Minneapolis, where Odin was scheduled for a medical appointment, in Fort Dodge, Iowa on June 5, 2023. (Jamie Kelter Davis/The New York Times)
EditorialOdin SmallCarter, left, and DeMarcus Carter, who has co-parented Odin since she was 2, packing their car for a road trip to Minneapolis, where Odin was scheduled for a medical appointment, in Fort Dodge, Iowa on June 5, 2023. (Jamie Kelter Davis/The New York Times)
EditorialOdin SmallCarter, left, and DeMarcus Carter, who has co-parented Odin since she was 2, packing their car for a road trip to Minneapolis, where Odin was scheduled for a medical appointment, in Fort Dodge, Iowa on June 5, 2023. (Jamie Kelter Davis/The New York Times)
EditorialOdin SmallCarter, left, and DeMarcus Carter, who has co-parented Odin since she was 2, packing their car for a road trip to Minneapolis, where Odin was scheduled for a medical appointment, in Fort Dodge, Iowa on June 5, 2023. (Jamie Kelter Davis/The New York Times)
EditorialOdin SmallCarter, left, and DeMarcus Carter, who has co-parented Odin since she was 2, packing their car for a road trip to Minneapolis, where Odin was scheduled for a medical appointment, in Fort Dodge, Iowa on June 5, 2023. (Jamie Kelter Davis/The New York Times)
EditorialSome girls are starting to develop breasts as early as age 6 or 7. Researchers are studying the role of obesity, chemicals and stress. (Eleni Kalorkoti/The New York Times)
EditorialSome girls are starting to develop breasts as early as age 6 or 7. Researchers are studying the role of obesity, chemicals and stress. (Eleni Kalorkoti/The New York Times)
EditorialSome girls are starting to develop breasts as early as age 6 or 7. Researchers are studying the role of obesity, chemicals and stress. (Eleni Kalorkoti/The New York Times)
EditorialSister Wendy Khalil shines a flashlight to help girls see as they brush their teeth at the Casa Hogar Carmela Valera in Maracaibo, Venezuela on Feb. 6, 2020. (Meridith Kohut/The New York Times)
EditorialAura Fernández’s children in their shared bedroom in Maracaibo, Venezuela, missing their mother days after she left to go work in Colombia on Jan. 25, 2020. (Meridith Kohut/The New York Times)