DEAR ABBY: Some time ago, my husband and I became foster parents to a little girl who had been seriously abused. After we had cared for her only seven months, she was returned to her parents. Shortly after that, the mom signed guardianship over to...

DEAR ABBY: I'm a 21-year-old nursing student in college. I'm a people person and everyone says I'm easy to talk to. According to my friends, I am pretty, smart, funny, etc., but I have never had a boyfriend.

I was extremely sick throughout high ...

DEAR ABBY: My husband and I attended the wedding of the son of some old friends in another state. Rather than buy the young couple a gift, we instead gave them a check for $1,000. Imagine our astonishment when a month later the following arrived ...

DEAR ABBY: I was surprised to see you equate a concerned grandmother's creative solution to smoking with bribery in your Feb. 14 column. The word bribe has a negative connotation. What the grandmother did was offer an incentive, not a bribe...

DEAR ABBY: My husband and I recently learned that our sister-in-law's adult son from a prior marriage, Charlie, is now Claire. My husband and I have three sons, ages 2 to 10 years.

This sister-in-law expressed concern that our 10-year-old would ...

DEAR ABBY: My boyfriend and I have been together a year and a half. I regret moving in with him when I did, which was after only three months of dating.

We have been through a lot, including my struggle with various health issues. Throughout this...