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Q. My daughter has had her daughter removed from her care because of some bad choices she made in the past, but the truth was she was an unfit parent. Child Protective Services placed the child with me and suggested I apply for guardianship. I did take the child, but I never officially applied. My daughter has been combative and angry since the ...Read more

After 15 years in a high-paying finance job, Joanna Lepore knew she'd have to quit, for a once-unthinkable reason — she has children.

"I never had any intention of leaving my job," said the married mother of two kids under 10 years of age living in Haddonfield, Pa. But working remotely — while home-schooling her son and watching her toddler...Read more

Three hundred and sixty-five gallons of milk, 300 pounds of flour and 13 gallons of syrup is not a load for a wagon train reenactment, but the tallies some of the grandkids came up with after calculating what their large family uses in one year.

It was the syrup consumption that jolted this big-city-turned-country wing of the family into taking...Read more

Q: My 5-year-old continues to throw tantrums when he doesn’t get his way. His father and I are divorced. I have primary custody. He is with his dad every other weekend, basically. My ex has very poor emotional control and I’m concerned that our son may have inherited that from him. When he throws a tantrum, I make him sit in a “tantrum ...Read more

HARTFORD, Conn. – Her aunt was the first to fall ill with the coronavirus, dying in a nursing home during those chaotic early days of the pandemic.

Months later, her father got sick. He suffered from underlying respiratory issues, and his decline was swift: Death came on Jan. 18, Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday. Her uncle died a week ...Read more

ST. CLOUD, Minn. – Finding a new child care provider has become a frustrating routine for middle school teacher Megan Dolan.

"He's on his third daycare in less than a year," said Dolan, 29, who lives outside of Becker with her husband.

After their 2-year-old son's child care provider closed in May, they found another in-home daycare about a ...Read more

TAMPA, Fla. – Alexia Khammanivong did not know she had given birth.

She didn’t know that minutes before, she’d been flying over Tampa Bay in a helicopter at 120 miles per hour.

She didn’t know Kyrie weighed 3 pounds, 9 ounces, or that he, like her, was breathing through the help of a ventilator.

She’d been sedated and placed on the ...Read more

A flyer for an Idaho high school's prom began making the rounds on social media last week.

Melba Junior-Senior High School isn't hosting an official prom this spring due to the COVID-19 pandemic. But a group of parents decided to host a prom of their own for Melba students.

The tagline? "A Little Party Never Killed Nobody."

Melba parent ...Read more

I wonder the things I'll tell a young person about this year under the pandemic, when I become an elder.

Will working for home be the center of my coronavirus tale? Will I recall the nights I spent praying to God to heal my brother-in-law from his brush with the virus and spare my sister and her children from contracting it? (Everyone is fine.)...Read more

Vice President Kamala Harris will deliver special remarks at the Kids’ Choice Awards this weekend, Nickelodeon announced Friday.

The former California senator, who is the first woman and the first person of color to serve as vice president, is set to appear during the show’s Generation Change presentation — an initiative that recognizes ...Read more

Women have dropped out of the U.S. workforce at a faster pace in states where most students are learning from home, risking a reversal of decades of gendered advancement.

Before the pandemic, the participation rate of mothers in the labor force was about 18 percentage points lower than fathers’. From 2019 to 2020, the gap widened by 5 points ...Read more

Concerning my prior use of the word “addiction” in association with smart phones and children (including teens), some people think I am speaking figuratively. To set the record straight: No, I am speaking quite literally.

When the addiction in question is to a substance, as in an opiate, there is both a psychological and physical component....Read more

One of the great things about young children is their ability to see the world through unvarnished eyes. They call 'em like they see 'em with no holding back.

Our eldest daughter was given a handmade card from her youngest saying how much she loved Mommy. Mommy told the little one that she was going to keep the card forever, to which an older ...Read more

Q. I have been living with my boyfriend for 3 years. He has two adult children from a previous marriage. His adult daughter who is married with two children, ages 6 and 8, is turning 30 and they are all going away for the weekend to celebrate. I am not invited. They say it is because I have had too much to drink on previous occasions and it ...Read more

Every region of the world has its own set of trials and triumphs, and if you’re going to learn about another culture, the best place to start is by listening to those who have lived it. Fiction, in many respects, is the perfect portal to take you to new times and places, but it also provides the unique opportunity to meet individual characters...Read more