Rasan Portlock and his 10-year-old Ryheim spoke to Today about the positive changes they've seen in the educational system at Devonshire Elementary School in Charlotte, N.C. The interview is filled with so much love and admiration that your heart will most likely double in size and then hug itself. » 6/12/13 10:00am 6/12/13 10:00am

Children are soooo selfish, aren't they just? They're always leaving shit behind for parents to clean up, shit like gross underwear, dead childhood pets, erotica so well-hidden that they forgot all about it when they moved out, and, according to the latest and greatest scientific research, fetal cells that they… » 9/27/12 10:00am 9/27/12 10:00am

In yet another desperate attempt to humanize their father, the Romney sons released a Father's Day video in which they detail all of the fun times they had with their dad. Guess what? The good times centered entirely around pranking each other. Oh, and for some mysterious reason also involved him nicknaming one of… » 6/17/12 8:00pm 6/17/12 8:00pm

The first question we might be asking about this terribly misguided ad from Mr. Clean is what sort of weird, Oedipal relationship does a son have with his mother where he dresses like the Brawny towel paper dude's less brawny younger brother in order to clean mom's house? Thankfully, Mr. Clean doesn't want sons to… » 5/11/12 3:35pm 5/11/12 3:35pm

Ever since Oedipus unwittingly carried on with his mom and Freud built an extensive scientific theory around their mythical indiscretions, a cultural stigma has been associated with close mother-son relationships, especially those relationships that continue on well into a disaffected, serial-killing adulthood.… » 4/08/12 6:12pm 4/08/12 6:12pm

In our Daddy Issues series, a father of a young daughter seeks guidance, hoping to raise a strong woman. He looks to you, dear readers, for insight. » 7/22/11 2:30pm 7/22/11 2:30pm

A survey claims that moms are more critical of their daughters than of their sons — and this may be why women are "more self-critical" in adulthood. » 10/06/10 3:02pm 10/06/10 3:02pm

Robert Urbatsch of the University of Iowa recently published a study that families with daughters or without children are more likely to support and value military intervention abroad than those with boys. Uh-oh. [Slate] » 3/17/09 12:40pm 3/17/09 12:40pm

New research pokes holes » 8/28/08 5:30pm 8/28/08 5:30pm in the old theory that the children of single-parents are more likely to be unsuccessful (Obama and Michael Phelps seemed to turn out just fine!). • The Planning Commission of Clayton, California has that 11-year-old girl's produce stand that , although the town's mayor (who previously called…