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August 15, 2025

 

PARENTING

‘My Fellow Parents Have Betrayed Me’ How it feels when your allies in the fight for a phone-free childhood buy one for their fifth-grader.

By Liz Krieger

Illustration: Kaitlin Brito

For years, Rosie, a mom of two in Westchester, genuinely believed she had found her “unicorn family” — people with whom she, her husband, and their two daughters were ultracompatible. They had met Dan and Katerina in a parenting class in 2015, back when they all lived in Brooklyn. Their kids were the same ages and genders. The husbands played soccer and texted Wordle scores to one another daily; the women swapped Instant Pot recipes, dragged their kids on weekend hikes to Bear Mountain, and later, when they all found themselves new to the suburbs, helped each other unpack and adjust. Over the course of their decade-long friendship, they had developed a routine of near-weekly sleepovers for their four girls.

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