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With desires, it’s all in how you handle them

Dan puts steaming bowls of muesli in front of the children, studded with dried fruit and almond butter, and they sling creamy bites into unusually quiet mouths. Rose licks her lips and annou...

DATE: May 2, 2015 | CATEGORY: Family

Md. county: Police have leeway on ‘free-range’ kids

Montgomery County, Maryland, police do not have to send unattended children to Child Protective Services if they do not believe neglect is involved in the case and can instead notify the par...

DATE: May 2, 2015 | CATEGORY: Family

For some, prom is more than fancy dress

Students using evening to include everyone, take stand on issues

DATE: Apr 25, 2015 | CATEGORY: Family

Friend’s fear of toxins may be hazardous to her health

Q: A friend of mine is paranoid about health and environmental stuff. She is constantly worried about exposure to toxins and refuses to go out to places she thinks might expose her to any nu...

DATE: Apr 18, 2015 | CATEGORY: Family

For American moms, it’s all about timing

Study: Mothers tend to space pregnancies 2½ years apart

DATE: Apr 18, 2015 | CATEGORY: Family

Oh, baby! Two top White House advisers expecting

WASHINGTON – Jen Psaki thought the offer to be President Barack Obama’s communications director wouldn’t last long. She figured White House chief of staff Denis McDonough hadn’t h...

DATE: Apr 11, 2015 | CATEGORY: Family

U.S. foreign adoptions reach lowest mark since 1982

NEW YORK – The number of foreign children adopted by U.S. parents dropped by 9 percent last year to the lowest level since 1982, according to new State Department figures. The de...

DATE: Apr 4, 2015 | CATEGORY: Family

Parents seeking urban lifestyles for kids

Families are leaving suburbs for the city – Denver, too

DATE: Mar 28, 2015 | CATEGORY: Family

‘Heather Has Two Mommies’ revised, updated

Author revamps groundbreaking 1980s book about lesbian mothers

DATE: Mar 21, 2015 | CATEGORY: Family

Will ‘over-sharenting’ mean the end of privacy for our kids?

Your toddler vomited in the car on your way to the dentist. Frazzled, you post a status on Facebook about the terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad day. Social media has made “sha...

DATE: Mar 21, 2015 | CATEGORY: Family

Tinder’s age tax part of online dating’s age problem

Mere months after Tinder made headlines for firing its only female co-founder under very shady circumstances, everyone’s favorite hook-up app has landed itself in a hot new drama – this one ...

DATE: Mar 14, 2015 | CATEGORY: Family