Article In Search of a Platonic Co-Parent
Article In Search of a Platonic Co-Parent
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https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/style/platonic-co-parenting-apps.html
Re the rise of non-romantic co-parenting arrangements. I can see pros and cons for women in these sorts of arrangements.
I think this is pretty cool. As in, women being able to find people to help co-parent and like what that one woman said about how she observed her friends entering their 30s and fretting about having to find a suitable male partner to have a baby with and be the baby's parent. That's a tall ask and honestly, how well has this stupid system worked out for women for decades? How many women end up divorced, or find themselves taking care of two children after giving birth to one (the baby and her recently-turned-manchild husband/male romantic partner)? Men love to scream about being victims of "baby trapping" but really it's overwhelmingly men who "baby trap" women. This platonic co-parenting system, with sometimes even more than two parents for a child, makes more sense to me than the failed nuclear family structure.
My only concern would be child abusers/pedophiles using these apps/websites to gain access to victims... Granted, that already happens with dating apps where child abusers/pedophiles seek out dating women with children. But apps dedicated to platonic co-parenting seems potentially even easier for a child predator to gain access to children.
