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Too young to walk someplace alone?

Maryland couple faces investigation after letting their kids walk alone

DATE: Jan 17, 2015 | CATEGORY: Family

When a perfectionist storm is a regular thing

My 7-year-old daughter is bright enough that many things come pretty easily for her, but when they don’t, she gets frustrated and quits. She won’t practice or work at anything because she’s...

DATE: Jan 10, 2015 | CATEGORY: Family

Newlywed man, 95, dies after wife taken away

‘He lived for her, and she lived for him. ’

DATE: Jan 3, 2015 | CATEGORY: Family

Wonkblog: The rise of single motherhood in America

WASHINGTON – Few institutions in America have evolved over the past 50 years quite like motherhood. More women are having their children later in life. Or they’re doing so in less traditiona...

DATE: Dec 27, 2014 | CATEGORY: Family

Americans aren’t marrying – is porn to blame?

Study points to availability of free online pornography as a possible culprit

DATE: Dec 27, 2014 | CATEGORY: Family

Looking for kids’ books? You can’t miss with these 5

With the holidays right around the corner, I thought I would share five amazing books for kids that would make great gifts. These run the gamut from architecture to science, geography, histo...

DATE: Dec 20, 2014 | CATEGORY: Family

As we age, it’s important to love the questions

Always we want to learn from outside, from absorbing other people’s knowledge... The trouble is that it’s always other people’s knowledge. – Peter Kingsley, ...

DATE: Dec 13, 2014 | CATEGORY: Family

The challenge of explaining police misconduct to kids

Let children know that officers aren’t all bad, but sometimes they get it wrong

DATE: Dec 13, 2014 | CATEGORY: Family

Should breast-feeding moms ‘perhaps sit in a corner’?

LONDON – Should new moms be allowed to breast-feed in public? Should they be made to cover up? Sit in a corner? These are questions being hotly debated here after an incident at C...

DATE: Dec 6, 2014 | CATEGORY: Family

Asexuals seeking to raise awareness

On a table in a Washington pizza place sat a toy birthday cake. It was a symbol to newcomers looking for the Asexuals of the MidAtlantic Meetup that they had found the right group...

DATE: Nov 29, 2014 | CATEGORY: Family

Parents ask: How do we handle the odd girl out?

My 11-year-old daughter has been friends with a pair of twins since kindergarten. She has more in common and fun with one than the other and so would like to invite her to things without the...

DATE: Nov 29, 2014 | CATEGORY: Family