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Joseph “JP” Powers, the chief investment officer of RWA Wealth Partners, a Boston-based wealth manager with around $20 billion of assets under management, says opportunities outside the U.S. remain but that pickiness is now essential.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

“Children’s eagerness to eat was a cross-class phenomenon then,” she relates, “just as pickiness is a cross-class phenomenon now.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026

"Feeding young children can be difficult due to general pickiness, hesitancy to try unfamiliar foods and constantly evolving food preferences," said Mott Poll co-director and Mott pediatrician Susan Woolford, M.D.

From Science Daily • Apr. 22, 2024

One thing that may not have changed much over time is the pickiness of the artists, who certainly have their idiosyncratic likes and dislikes.

From New York Times • Jul. 17, 2023

For now, though, you can put aside these concerns, even if your daughter experimentally emulates your pickiness for a while.

From Slate • Feb. 22, 2021