Friday Links

Photo Illustration by Tracy Ma for The New York Times

Here are a few things from around the web that may interest you:

Tinder and Bumble Are Hungry for Your Love: The big online dating rebrand means the apps want you to fall in love with them now.

Related: The 5 Years That Changed Dating

Also: Online dating has had a side effect no one saw coming

The Relentlessness of Modern Parenting

This is good: Neither of my parents was exactly who I thought they were

This is not good: Women’s rights are in epic danger as more and more laws are treating a fetus as a person, and a woman as less of one, and states charge pregnant women with crimes…

The Way American Parents Think About Chores Is Bizarre

And in case you need some inspiration for your new year’s goal to read a book a week (or a book a month) this year: NPR’s Book Concierge; Our Guide To 2018’s Great Reads

Thank you to those who submitted links for me to include. If you see something around the web you think DW readers would appreciate, please send me a link to wendy@dearwendy.com and, if it’s a fit, I’ll include it in Friday’s round-up. Thanks!

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