The Family Weekly: How Americans Started Throwing Parties for Everything
Plus: parents’ gender preferences for children, the changing ways LGBTQ youth come out to their family, and a conversation about “emotional labor”
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If it feels like there’s a party for these days—gender reveals, post-wedding receptions, even divorcewrites the staff writer Alia Wong. She spoke with people who have thrown these parties to figure out why they’ve become so popular of late.
