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Cosmopolitan explores the extraordinary rise in family estrangement across the country—and what’s leading millennials and Gen Zers to their breaking points.

So many women are navigating the harrowing transition from “if you let a man within 3 feet of you, you will get pregnant” to “on a breezeless night on the third full moon, you have a 2 percent chance of conceiving.” Why does society keep us in the dark about our own bodies for so long?

“You come with a comment like that and we are going to fight back twice as hard.”

In the unregulated world of vloggers, children are, for the most part, not entitled to a single cent they help earn. We spoke to creators—and a former kid influencer—to understand how this unusual family business actually works.

Millennial content creators built massive platforms—and fortunes—from splashing their children’s lives all over social media. But now some have had a change of heart. Here, we find out why.

The multibillion-dollar industry of family vlogging is awash in accusations of exploitation, but these creators insist that making content out of their kids is worth it. High-profile “sharenters” defend their decisions to Cosmo.