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Premature birth strikes many families -- over 500,000 every year in the U.S. alone. Thankfully most of these babies do survive. But many face problems throughout their lives with their hearing and vision, walking and cognitive skills.
I am the mother of a child who died. And that makes Mother's Day very hard. Other days of the year you can pretend that you are an ordinary person and that life is normal. But not on Mother's Day.
Before having kids, my life was economy-sized. There was room for just three passengers: Me, Me and Me.
A gay man can grin and say ironically, "I'm a really good mother," which may mean that he performs the daily child care in his home, but his comment does not define him as a mom. Nor is a lesbian who coaches her son's hockey team a father. Both are just doing what parents do.
When our parents die, we don't like to believe that we're next. But we are. Better to grow up before we die. That's a lesson my dad taught me. So on this anniversary, I remember, with gratitude my dad.
On Father's Day, many of us took the time to celebrate how much our dads mean to us, but one out of every three children in America lives apart from his or her father.
I spent Father's Day afternoon with a friend at Citi Field in Queens catching the Mets versus the Angels in inter-league play. It was a beautiful day;...
Here in the U.S. successful parenting remains the most powerful weapon we have to combat many of society's larger problems, and many assume that it's a skill that comes naturally. But just like what you learn in college, it's doesn't.
As our nation celebrated the importance of fathers this weekend, it's a good time to reflect on how we show them love in the policies we create.
My Dad was all sharp edges and no-nonsense discipline with few verbal "I love you's." But inside, he had a warm squishy heart that I could wind around...
Even though Father's Day is about six months off from Hannukah, it always makes me think of my taciturn father's potato pancakes.
This Father's Day, Animal Fair presents five pawsitively perfect ways that man's best friend can give back to dear old dad. So sit! Stay! Pick up your tongue and perk up your ears, because this one's for you Fido!
Brandon Dubinsky fondly remembers growing up in Alaska, "It was a great ... especially being a hockey player -- it was the best place you could think about growing up."
Women become who they are because of how their fathers treated them and the women around them. A good relationship with Dad is beneficial in all ways, present and future.
I feel really sorry for so many of us who have lost their dads, brothers and friends to prostate cancer. I lost my dad 13 years ago to the disease....
Every June, I imagine I will find myself engaged in this delicate balancing act, this cruel negotiation between the joy of being a father today, and the sense of loss over what used to be and what could have been.
