I wonder if you can tell me the story of Abby and Matt Howard.

Who are they, and what did they do?

They are a parenting influencer couple, I guess.

They were high school of sweethearts.

And sort of young parents, I would say, that sort of share their

life as young parents online. I was unaware of who they were until last year when they got

in some trouble. Stephanie Murray is a writer for The Atlantic, and she runs the newsletter,

family stuff. She recently wrote about the Howards in a piece for the Atlantic, and she runs the newsletter, Family Stuff.

She recently wrote about the Howards in a piece for Slate, specifically, an incident that

occurred when the family had gone on a cruise late last year.

They had been putting the kids in the cruise daycare while the couple went to dinner.

That just didn't not go well. The kids didn't like it.

And then they decided, okay, instead we're going to have the kids eat early. We'll put them to

bed. And then, you know, we've got this FaceTime sort of like monitor using your phone

as a makeshift baby monitor.

The internet did not approve.

So that pretty quickly was met with a lot of backlash.

People really did not like that idea.

They thought it was very unsafe and were kind of shocked that the couple would do that.

Obviously, people on the internet always have an opinion, especially when it comes to parenting.

But the backlash the Howard's faced seemed to be more hypothetical than normal.

People were concerned about abduction. Like if you leave a child alone, you know, why would

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