Parents (magazine)
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| Editor in Chief | Liz Vaccariello |
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| Categories | Parenting |
| Frequency | Monthly |
| Publisher | Meredith Corporation |
| Total circulation (2011) |
2,215,645 |
| First issue | October 1926 |
| Country | United States |
| Based in | New York City |
| Language | English |
| Website | www |
| ISSN | 1083-6373 |
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.
The magazine was started by George J. Hecht in 1926. The magazine was originally titled Children, The Magazine for Parents. Hecht hired Clara Savage Littledale to be its first editor. The first issue was published in October 1926 and soon was selling 100,000 copies a month. Beginning with the August 1929 issue, the name was changed to Parents' Magazine (with an apostrophe). Littledale was followed as editor by Mary Buchanan. In 1937, the magazine was granted trademark registration for the mark Parents' Magazine.
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. 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 the name shortened, utilizing only the word "Parents", without an apostrophe.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.
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.
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