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After reading one au pair's viral story of fleeing her host family's house, I reflected on the realities of my own experience ...

Research by Stanford University concluded that parents can significantly reduce emotional harm to their children by carefully ...

The Supreme Court appears poised to establish a right of parents of public school children to opt-out their kids from lessons offensive to religious beliefs.

This is a majority issue — not a transphobic, homophobic or discriminatory issue — and this is about parents being parents ...

The Supreme Court appeared inclined Tuesday to side with a group of parents objecting to their school district including ...

Wondering how donor eggs can break your heart yet expand it? Dive into the grief, guilt, and fierce love that redefine ...

You think it’s just about texting habits or how often you like to cuddle—but underneath all of that is something deeper. The ...

At the end of the day, one of the most common reasons adult children emotionally withdraw from their parents is because they ...

If your adult child has gone from texting you regularly to only sending the occasional, impersonal holiday message or nothing at all, it’s not just a b ...

You may have heard about love languages before — the popular theory that suggests every person has a particular way of showing and receiving love. In people, there are five bigs ones: words of ...