PRESS ALERT | August 5, 2026 | National Media Coverage
The New York Times Magazine has published a major feature on family caregiving and the millions of children doing this work in the United States.
“The U.S. Relies on Family Caregivers. Millions of Them Are Kids.” was written by Helen Ouyang, MD, MPH, with photographs by Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Stephanie Sinclair. The article examines what happens when health care, home care and public systems assume someone in the household will fill the gaps, even when that person is a child.
The article takes readers inside the American Association of Caregiving Youth and its Caregiving Youth Project in Palm Beach County, following AACY family specialists as they identify students, visit families at home, work with schools and arrange respite. It also draws on decades of research, advocacy and direct service in the United States and abroad, including the work of AACY Founder and President Dr. Connie Siskowski.
Read the full article in The New York Times Magazine:
“The U.S. Relies on Family Caregivers. Millions of Them Are Kids.”
The modern health care system requires the work of caregiving to fall to whoever else lives in a household, even if they’re kids.
By Helen Ouyang, MD, MPH | Photographs by Stephanie Sinclair | August 5, 2026
People quoted or featured in the article include: AACY Founder and President Connie Siskowski, RN, PhD; AACY family specialists Pilar Brugman, Thamar Mathias, MSW, and Kayli McBean, BSW; Michelle Bolden, DNP, MBA, BSN, RN; Elizabeth “Betsy” Olson; Melinda S. Kavanaugh, PhD, LCSW; Julie Belkowitz, MD, MPH, FAAP; Emma Armstrong-Carter; Saul Becker; Pauline Johansson; Stephen Osborn; Mary Watkins; and Tangela Benjamin.
Organizations and institutions represented in the reporting include: Call For Caring, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Nova Southeastern University, Tufts University, Manchester Metropolitan University, Linnaeus University, the Rhode Island Department of Education, William M. Davies, Jr. Career and Technical High School, and Clayton County Public Schools.