When we were little, whenever a sex scene came on in a movie, my dad would holler "INAPPROPRIATE!" and my brother…
The mother and grandparents of an Italian boy are being charged with child abuse for their smothering,…
As reiterated on this past Sunday's 60 Minutes, actress/producer/director Drew Barrymore had herself emancipated…
One New Year's, my family went to stay at one of those Catskills resorts, now closed, that catered to Jews of a…
Yesterday Forbes ran a piece about "best-friend moms," and how "being an intimate rather than an authority figure"…
A study by Britain's Institute of Child Health reports that kids of working mothers are more likely to eat unhealthy…
Salon's Andrew O'Hehir wonders why people are so offended when he tells them his kids are home-schooled. After…
In the much-ballyhooed Prospect Park West, Amy Sohn welcomes her readers to Park Slope, where the women are mean,…
According to a study, kids who were spanked at age one were more likely to be aggressive at two, and cognitively…
"[T]hat's the worst mistake a woman can make, to think, Oh, I'm 32 and I've had two kids [...] and now it's going to…
Withholding love from your kids when they misbehave seems like a bad parenting tactic — but according to Alfie Kohn…
When I drive to work in the morning, I often pass children on their way to school. Sometimes, they're in groups, and…
When her second child was born, Lena Corner struggled to name him. After six weeks of struggling, she and her…
It's funny that on the same day I planned to write a little something on Obama's "Fatherhood Initiative," a tipster…
According to EurekAlert, a new study out of Ohio State University claims that women tend to follow the parenting…
Dumb headline of the day: "Ten Comebacks From Motherhood." [Independent]
Times have changed: in my day, the consequences of taking a car on a joyride because you don't want to attend church…
"When I turned 40, I married a much younger man. I had lied to him about my age, so he wasn't that concerned with my…
Anyone who's lived on my parents' block for more than 21 years remembers my brother naked. For the first four years…