Empty Nesters in the Rooms Their Kids Left Behind

Slate looks at the work of photographer Dona Schwartz, who has photographed parents in the rooms their adult children have abandoned:

Schwartz said it’s often clear how parents should prepare for the arrival of a new baby, the rules of how to treat the unoccupied room of an adult child are less concrete. “There's a sort of gray area between what you do with that room when you've gone from full-time parenting to whatever it is that comes next,” Schwartz said. “In some of the houses I went into, people didn't need space, so those rooms could stay intact. They'd close the door and pretty much not go into them. In other houses, there's more of a calculation: They need the space, but they want to preserve it to maintain the memories.”