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==History ==
==History ==
The magazine was started by [[George J. Hecht]] in 1926. The magazine was originally titled ''Children, The Magazine for Parents''.<ref>{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/?id=ueBgyV7inJAC&pg=PA145&dq=%22parents%27+magazine%22+1926#v=onepage&q=%22parents%27%20magazine%22%201926&f=false | title=Children and War: A Historical Anthology| isbn=9780814756676| last1=Marten| first1=James| date=2002-08-24}}</ref> Hecht hired [[Clara Littledale|Clara Savage Littledale]] to be its first editor. The first issue was published in October 1926 <ref>{{cite web|title=Magazines in Alphabetical Order|url=http://guides.library.harvard.edu/schlesinger_womens_magazines|work=Radcliffe Institute|accessdate=October 19, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Top 100 U.S. Magazines by Circulation|url=http://www.psaresearch.com/images/TOPMAGAZINES.pdf|work=PSA Research Center|accessdate=February 6, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161115225953/http://www.psaresearch.com/images/TOPMAGAZINES.pdf|archive-date=November 15, 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> and soon was selling 100,000 copies a month.<ref name=selig>{{cite web|last=Selig|first=Diana|title=Parents Magazine|url=http://www.faqs.org/childhood/Me-Pa/Parents-Magazine.html|work=Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood in History and Society|accessdate=December 12, 2011}}</ref> Beginning with the August 1929 issue, the name was changed to ''Parents' Magazine'' (with an apostrophe).<ref>{{Cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/massmediachronol00huds_0 | url-access=registration | quote=parents' magazine apostrophe. |title = Mass Media: A Chronological Encyclopedia of Television, Radio, Motion Pictures, Magazines, Newspapers, and Books in the United States| publisher=Garland Publishing, Incorporated |isbn = 9780824086954|last1 = Hudson|first1 = Robert Vernon|year = 1987}}</ref> Littledale was followed as editor by Mary Buchanan. In 1937, the magazine was granted trademark registration for the mark ''Parents' Magazine''.<ref>http://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/793/1222/1369335/</ref>
The magazine was started by [[George J. Hecht]] in 1926. The magazine was originally titled ''Children, The Magazine for Parents''.<ref>{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ueBgyV7inJAC&q=%22parents%27+magazine%22+1926&pg=PA145 | title=Children and War: A Historical Anthology| isbn=9780814756676| last1=Marten| first1=James| date=2002-08-24}}</ref> Hecht hired [[Clara Littledale|Clara Savage Littledale]] to be its first editor. The first issue was published in October 1926 <ref>{{cite web|title=Magazines in Alphabetical Order|url=http://guides.library.harvard.edu/schlesinger_womens_magazines|work=Radcliffe Institute|accessdate=October 19, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Top 100 U.S. Magazines by Circulation|url=http://www.psaresearch.com/images/TOPMAGAZINES.pdf|work=PSA Research Center|accessdate=February 6, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161115225953/http://www.psaresearch.com/images/TOPMAGAZINES.pdf|archive-date=November 15, 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> and soon was selling 100,000 copies a month.<ref name=selig>{{cite encyclopedia|last=Selig|first=Diana|title=Parents Magazine|url=http://www.faqs.org/childhood/Me-Pa/Parents-Magazine.html|encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood in History and Society|accessdate=December 12, 2011}}</ref> Beginning with the August 1929 issue, the name was changed to ''Parents' Magazine'' (with an apostrophe).<ref>{{Cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/massmediachronol00huds_0 | url-access=registration | quote=parents' magazine apostrophe. |title = Mass Media: A Chronological Encyclopedia of Television, Radio, Motion Pictures, Magazines, Newspapers, and Books in the United States| publisher=Garland Publishing, Incorporated |isbn = 9780824086954|last1 = Hudson|first1 = Robert Vernon|year = 1987}}</ref> Littledale was followed as editor by Mary Buchanan. In 1937, the magazine was granted trademark registration for the mark ''Parents' Magazine''.<ref>http://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/793/1222/1369335/</ref>


From 1941–1965, '''Parents' Magazine Press''' published a line of [[comic books]] and magazines heavily featuring comics, including such long-running titles as ''Calling All Girls'', ''[[Children's Digest]]'', ''Polly Pigtails'', ''True Comics'', and ''True Picture-Magazine''.<ref>[http://www.comics.org/publisher/119/ Parents Magazine Press], Grand Comics Database. Accessed Feb. 29, 2016.</ref> Parents Magazine Press also published ''[[Humpty Dumpty (magazine)|Humpty Dumpty]]'' from the 1950s through the early 1980s, until it and ''Children's Digest'' were sold to the ''[[Saturday Evening Post]]'' company.
From 1941–1965, '''Parents' Magazine Press''' published a line of [[comic books]] and magazines heavily featuring comics, including such long-running titles as ''Calling All Girls'', ''[[Children's Digest]]'', ''Polly Pigtails'', ''True Comics'', and ''True Picture-Magazine''.<ref>[http://www.comics.org/publisher/119/ Parents Magazine Press], Grand Comics Database. Accessed Feb. 29, 2016.</ref> Parents Magazine Press also published ''[[Humpty Dumpty (magazine)|Humpty Dumpty]]'' from the 1950s through the early 1980s, until it and ''Children's Digest'' were sold to the ''[[Saturday Evening Post]]'' company.
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* ''[[The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1939 film)|The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn]]'' (March 1939) <ref>https://entertainment.ha.com/itm/movie-tv-memorabilia/awards/the-adventures-of-huckleberry-finn-award-medal-from-parents-magazine/a/7006-49002.s</ref>
* ''[[The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1939 film)|The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn]]'' (March 1939) <ref>https://entertainment.ha.com/itm/movie-tv-memorabilia/awards/the-adventures-of-huckleberry-finn-award-medal-from-parents-magazine/a/7006-49002.s</ref>
* ''[[The Wizard of Oz (1939 film)|The Wizard of Oz]]'' (September 1939) <ref>{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/?id=ampVBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA68&lpg=PA68&dq=%22parents+magazine%22+medal+%22movie+of+the+month%22#v=onepage&q=%22parents%20magazine%22%20medal%20%22movie%20of%20the%20month%22&f=false |title = The Wonderful World of Oz: An Illustrated History of the American Classic|isbn = 9781461744771|last1 = Fricke|first1 = John|date = 2013-11-07}}</ref>
* ''[[The Wizard of Oz (1939 film)|The Wizard of Oz]]'' (September 1939) <ref>{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ampVBAAAQBAJ&q=%22parents+magazine%22+medal+%22movie+of+the+month%22&pg=PA68 |title = The Wonderful World of Oz: An Illustrated History of the American Classic|isbn = 9781461744771|last1 = Fricke|first1 = John|date = 2013-11-07}}</ref>
* ''[[Pinocchio (1940 film)|Pinocchio]]'' (December 1939) <ref>{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/?id=mH3Sr0-i5JIC&pg=PA113&lpg=PA113&dq=%22parents+magazine%22+medal+%22movie+of+the+month%22#v=onepage&q=%22parents%20magazine%22%20medal%20%22movie%20of%20the%20month%22&f=false |title = Babes in Tomorrowland: Walt Disney and the Making of the American Child, 1930–1960|isbn = 0822386836|last1 = Sammond|first1 = Nicholas|date = 2005-07-20}}</ref>
* ''[[Pinocchio (1940 film)|Pinocchio]]'' (December 1939) <ref>{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mH3Sr0-i5JIC&q=%22parents+magazine%22+medal+%22movie+of+the+month%22&pg=PA113 |title = Babes in Tomorrowland: Walt Disney and the Making of the American Child, 1930–1960|isbn = 0822386836|last1 = Sammond|first1 = Nicholas|date = 2005-07-20}}</ref>
* ''[[Kathleen (film)|Kathleen]]'' (January 1942) <ref>https://entertainment.ha.com/itm/movie-tv-memorabilia/awards/shirley-temple-kathleen-award-medal-from-parents-magazine/a/7006-49255.s?ic3=ViewItem-Auction-Archive-ThisAuction-120115</ref>
* ''[[Kathleen (film)|Kathleen]]'' (January 1942) <ref>https://entertainment.ha.com/itm/movie-tv-memorabilia/awards/shirley-temple-kathleen-award-medal-from-parents-magazine/a/7006-49255.s?ic3=ViewItem-Auction-Archive-ThisAuction-120115</ref>
* ''[[They Were Expendable]]'' (December 1943) <ref>{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/?id=Y8vKoEsPMqsC&pg=PA67&dq=%22parents+magazine%22+medal+%22movie+of+the+month%22#v=onepage&q=%22parents%20magazine%22%20medal%20%22movie%20of%20the%20month%22&f=false |title = Heritage Music & Entertainment Auction #7006|isbn = 9781599673691}}</ref>
* ''[[They Were Expendable]]'' (December 1943) <ref>{{Cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y8vKoEsPMqsC&q=%22parents+magazine%22+medal+%22movie+of+the+month%22&pg=PA67 |title = Heritage Music & Entertainment Auction #7006|isbn = 9781599673691}}</ref>
* ''[[Son of Lassie]]'' (May 1945) <ref>https://entertainment.ha.com/itm/movie-tv-memorabilia/awards/son-of-lassie-award-medal-from-parents-magazine/a/7006-49237.s</ref>
* ''[[Son of Lassie]]'' (May 1945) <ref>https://entertainment.ha.com/itm/movie-tv-memorabilia/awards/son-of-lassie-award-medal-from-parents-magazine/a/7006-49237.s</ref>
* ''[[Alice in Wonderland (1951 film)|Alice in Wonderland]]'' (July 1951) <ref>http://vintagedisneyalice.blogspot.com/2014/09/parents-magazine-september-1951.html</ref>
* ''[[Alice in Wonderland (1951 film)|Alice in Wonderland]]'' (July 1951) <ref>http://vintagedisneyalice.blogspot.com/2014/09/parents-magazine-september-1951.html</ref>

Revision as of 21:25, 18 November 2020

Parents
Editor in ChiefJulia Edelstein
CategoriesParenting
FrequencyMonthly
PublisherMeredith Corporation
Total circulation
(2011)		2,215,645
First issueOctober 1926
CountryUnited States
Based inNew York City[1]
LanguageEnglish
Websitewww.parents.com
ISSN1083-6373

Parents, published by Meredith Corporation, is an American mass circulation monthly magazine that features scientific information on child development geared to help parents in raising their children.

History

The magazine was started by George J. Hecht in 1926. The magazine was originally titled Children, The Magazine for Parents.[2] Hecht hired Clara Savage Littledale to be its first editor. The first issue was published in October 1926 [3][4] and soon was selling 100,000 copies a month.[5] Beginning with the August 1929 issue, the name was changed to Parents' Magazine (with an apostrophe).[6] Littledale was followed as editor by Mary Buchanan. In 1937, the magazine was granted trademark registration for the mark Parents' Magazine.[7]

From 1941–1965, Parents' Magazine Press published a line of comic books and magazines heavily featuring comics, including such long-running titles as Calling All Girls, Children's Digest, Polly Pigtails, True Comics, and True Picture-Magazine.[8] Parents Magazine Press also published Humpty Dumpty from the 1950s through the early 1980s, until it and Children's Digest were sold to the Saturday Evening Post company.

Parents' Magazine was sold to Gruner + Jahr in 1978. At that time, the magazine was "relaunched" and its name was shortened, utilizing only the word "Parents", without an apostrophe.[9] Elizabeth Crow became the magazine's editor for the next decade.

In 1992, Gruner + Jahr filed suit against Meredith for trademark infringement of Parents when Meredith published Parent's Digest. With the court finding no actual confusion of the products (though there was testimony from managers and employees as to inquiries about a possible relationship between the publications), the case was dismissed.[10]

Meredith acquired Parents magazine when Gruner + Jahr left the US magazine business in 2005. Sally Lee was the editor from 1998 to 2008. Dana Points was Editor in Chief from 2008-2016.

Profile

Its editorial focus is on the daily needs and concerns of mothers with young children. The glossy monthly features information about child health, safety, behavior, discipline and education. There are also stories on women's health, nutrition, pregnancy, marriage, and beauty. It is aimed primarily at women ages 18–35 with young children.

Columns include "As They Grow," which cover age-specific child development issues, as well as the reader-generated "Baby Bloopers," "It Worked for Me," and "Goody Bag." The magazine also produces a website,[11] an iPhone app for kids, Parents Flash Cards, and GoodyBlog.com, the now-defunct blog.

With its impressive historical reach, Parents has frequently been used by academics, to document social and cultural shifts over time. Melissa Milkie and Kathleen Denny describe the prominence of the magazine:

The magazine's goal of disseminating scientific knowledge of all types concerning children's development and family life in general, proved to be very popular. The magazine was the only U.S. periodical whose circulation rose during the Great Depression, and during the 1930s and 1940s, it was proclaimed as the most popular advice periodical in the world (Schlossman, 1985).[12] By 1971, PM claimed in its pages to have counseled mothers and fathers in the 'rearing of more than 100 million children,' attesting to its prominence"[13]

Despite its gender-neutral title, the magazine's advice has implicitly been directed toward women.[14] On the February 2019 issue it features a same-sex male couple, the first in its history.[15]

Medal for "Movie of the Month"

Each month, Parents' Magazine would award a medal to a "Movie of the Month". The image of the "Movie of the Month" Medal was subsequently used on movie posters and lobby cards. Past recipients include:

References

  1. ^ Dave Eisenstadter (May 28, 2015). "Family Fun magazine leaving Northampton; jobs moving to New York City". GazetteNet. Retrieved December 12, 2015.
  2. ^ Marten, James (2002-08-24). Children and War: A Historical Anthology. ISBN 9780814756676.
  3. ^ "Magazines in Alphabetical Order". Radcliffe Institute. Retrieved October 19, 2015.
  4. ^ "Top 100 U.S. Magazines by Circulation" (PDF). PSA Research Center. Archived from the original (PDF) on November 15, 2016. Retrieved February 6, 2016.
  5. ^ Selig, Diana. "Parents Magazine". Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood in History and Society. Retrieved December 12, 2011.
  6. ^ Hudson, Robert Vernon (1987). Mass Media: A Chronological Encyclopedia of Television, Radio, Motion Pictures, Magazines, Newspapers, and Books in the United States. Garland Publishing, Incorporated. ISBN 9780824086954. parents' magazine apostrophe.
  7. ^ http://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/793/1222/1369335/
  8. ^ Parents Magazine Press, Grand Comics Database. Accessed Feb. 29, 2016.
  9. ^ http://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/793/1222/1369335/
  10. ^ http://www.leagle.com/decision/19932063991F2d1072_11905/GRUNER%20+%20JAHR%20USA%20PUB.%20v.%20MEREDITH%20CORP.
  11. ^ "Parents". parents.com. Retrieved December 12, 2011.
  12. ^ Schlossman, S. (1985) Perils of Popularization: The founding of Parents' Magazine. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 50, 65-77.
  13. ^ Milkie, M. and K. Denny (2014) Changes in the Cultural Model of Father Involvement: Descriptions of Benefits to Fathers, Children, and Mothers in Parents' Magazine, 1926-2006. Journal of Family Issues, 35:223-53.
  14. ^ Strathman, T. (1984). From the quotidian to the utopian: Child rearing literature in America, 1926-1946. Berkeley Journal of Sociology, 29, 1-34.
  15. ^ 'Parents' magazine features same-sex dads on its cover
  16. ^ https://entertainment.ha.com/itm/movie-tv-memorabilia/awards/the-adventures-of-huckleberry-finn-award-medal-from-parents-magazine/a/7006-49002.s
  17. ^ Fricke, John (2013-11-07). The Wonderful World of Oz: An Illustrated History of the American Classic. ISBN 9781461744771.
  18. ^ Sammond, Nicholas (2005-07-20). Babes in Tomorrowland: Walt Disney and the Making of the American Child, 1930–1960. ISBN 0822386836.
  19. ^ https://entertainment.ha.com/itm/movie-tv-memorabilia/awards/shirley-temple-kathleen-award-medal-from-parents-magazine/a/7006-49255.s?ic3=ViewItem-Auction-Archive-ThisAuction-120115
  20. ^ Heritage Music & Entertainment Auction #7006. ISBN 9781599673691.
  21. ^ https://entertainment.ha.com/itm/movie-tv-memorabilia/awards/son-of-lassie-award-medal-from-parents-magazine/a/7006-49237.s
  22. ^ http://vintagedisneyalice.blogspot.com/2014/09/parents-magazine-september-1951.html
  23. ^ https://archive.org/stream/motionpicturedai76unse_0/motionpicturedai76unse_0_djvu.txt

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