What It’s Like to Parent With Your Friends
We talk about the challenges of communal living and what parents gain—emotionally, practically, even financially—when they raise their kids with their friends.
June 5, 2025
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What It’s Like to Parent With Your Friends
Summary
NPR’s Rhaina Cohen has taken a close look at friend-powered parenting, joining shared households to see how neighbor-and-friend alliances can break the isolation of modern parenthood. We’ll talk about the challenges of communal living and what parents gain—emotionally, practically, even financially—when they raise their kids with their friends. Cohen’s recent piece for the Atlantic is “A Grand Experiment in Parenthood and Friendship.” Would you raise your kids with your best pals?
Guests:
Rhaina Cohen, producer and editor for the NPR Documentary podcast Embedded; author of the Atlantic piece, "A Grand Experiment in Parenthood and Friendship"
Phil Levin, founder, Live Near Friends
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