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Better than the average family magazine
This magazine is packed with articles and information. They do an excellent job covering the range of ages from baby to pre-teen. I've read this magazine since pregnancy, and three years later, I still pick up new tips and suggestions in each issue. I can understand how it might not be for everyone, hence some negative reviews, but I highly recommend it and often give subscriptions to it as gifts.

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Not really "dad" friendly...
My wife is pregnant and we somehow ended with a subscription to this magazine. I've pretty eagerly dived into just about every book/brochure/magazine/catalog, etc. that had anything to do with pregnancy or children. The magazine really put me off.

I appreciate that for every pregnancy, there is ALWAYS a mother who is involved and the father may or may not be in the picture. But this entire magazine seemed to be devoted to pulling the whole thing off without a "dad" in the picture. Even the article "for him" was kind of insulting. Actually, the fact that it has a "for him" section should be a tip off.

Like I said, I've read a ton of material and this is the first time I was really put off. Maybe I just got a bad issue, but I'm getting information from other sources. It just seems like this magazine tagets women who either don't have a partner or whose partner is the sterotypical, work all the time, no time for the kids type of dad. C'mon....this might have been fine in 1950, but not today.

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Best of the bunch
New moms (and some dads, I suppose) gobble up magazines about child rearing, which is why the ads are geared toward baby products. I think Parenting is the best magazine in the genre because of its evenhanded approach to issues that sometimes divide us (working vs. stay-at-home, etc.), its articles that delve into subjects rather than scratching the surface and the useful what-to-expect-from-each-age-group feature. The column by Dr. Sears is invaluable; I find his common-sense advice to be comforting. Well-written, well-edited; Parenting deserved to win the prestigious Magazine of the Year award because its editors know their readership well.