We often hear about U.S. teachers being paid poorly for all the work they do to educate children. But did you know that 63 percent of teachers report ...
Tom Matlack | Posted 11.23.2009 | Living
At the Good Men Foundation, we have begun taking our message of manhood to the streets. Here I want to talk about the effect the absence of a father can have on children.
Peggy Drexler | Posted 11.23.2009 | Living
They used to tell adopted children that they were special because they'd been chosen. I've told my adopted child that I don't believe that. Neither adoption nor birth conveys status to a child.
BBC News | Posted 11.23.2009 | Living
Physical or emotional abuse during childhood could speed up the body's aging process, US research suggests....
TIME | Nancy Gibbs Friday, Nov. 20, 2009 | Posted 11.23.2009 | Living
We were so obsessed with our kids' success that parenting turned into a form of product development. ...
Nahal Zamani | Posted 11.23.2009 | Politics
Friday, November 20, marked the 20th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the most comprehensive treaty on children's rights.
Joanna Dolgoff, M.D. | Posted 11.20.2009 | Living
Airbrushing our children's imperfections sends the message that our kids are not good enough as they are. And who wants to teach that to their children?
Huffington Post | Posted 11.20.2009 | Books
Dreading going home for the holidays? So are a lot of people, and we imagine some of these writers wouldn't be looking forward to it either. Here ...
Victoria Fine | Posted 11.20.2009 | Impact
The United States is the only country other than Somalia that has not ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. To understand why, we sat down with longtime humanitarian, Eduardo Garcia.
AP | RACHEL D'ORO | Posted 11.20.2009 | Home
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A group of volunteer Santa Claus "elves" in Alaska's frigid interior is determined to save a popular holiday letter service ...
Mark Goulston, M.D. | Posted 11.18.2009 | Living
Do you have any relatives or friends that ruin everyone's time on Thanksgiving or Christmas and you can't un-invite them?
Caryl M. Stern | Posted 11.20.2009 | Impact
If you are walking near Fifth Avenue and 57th Street in New York City or along Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills and happen upon a crystal snowflake hovering overhead, please take a moment to consider why it is there.
nytimes.com | JEREMY W. PETERS | Posted 11.18.2009 | New York
New York State would make it a felony to drive while intoxicated with a child in the vehicle and would require first-time convicted drunken drivers to...
Carol Hoenig | Posted 11.18.2009 | Books
I'm sure I'd leafed through The Children's First Book of Poetry when I was a child, but it was more the memory of my mother reciting any number of poems that I cherished.
parenting.com | Posted 11.17.2009 | Living
Your 4-month-old looks amazingly like that always-furious boss you once had, but what is she really feeling?...
Donna Henes | Posted 11.17.2009 | Living
Ultimately, all harvest festivities celebrate one more season of our tenuous survival. We have managed to live through another year. Another fertile period has passed in our favor.
Bob McKinnon | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics
When habitual distractions trump deliberate actions we focus on politics instead of policy, the selfish vs. the selfless, and the "urgent" vs. the important. We much change the action-distraction equation.
Olivia Rosewood | Posted 11.17.2009 | Living
The theme of death this autumn, the season of dying, has brought home the realization that we are alive for now.
Alpha Mummy | Posted 11.16.2009 | Living
If you believe in an afterlife - where all your goodness will finally be noted, and taken into account, and justice will reign - it's like playing a c...
Valerie Tarico | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics
Dear Bishops: In our struggle to get health care for all, you saw an opportunity to make sure that American women can't afford abortions, a way to be the deciders for all of us.
Peggy Drexler | Posted 11.16.2009 | Living
For mother-blaming and self-blaming to ever stop, mothers are going to have to be seen -- and see themselves -- as individuals rather than symbols or caricatures.
Yahoo! News | Serena GordonHealthDay Reporter | Posted 11.16.2009 | Living
Whatever the cause, it's clear that the number of children with food allergies has gone up 18 percent and the number seeking treatment for food allerg...
Devra Davis, Ph.D. | Posted 11.16.2009 | Living
There are deeply troubling reports from nations where phones have been used longest that children may be especially vulnerable to the radio frequency waves emitted by cell phones.
Clive Crook | Posted 11.16.2009 | Business
Sooner or later the US will find itself grappling with an immense fiscal problem. The recession and stimulus have combined to produce record-breaking ...
Mika Brzezinski | Posted 11.16.2009 | Living
For me, having it all doesn't mean having the corner office at work and a penthouse at home if there aren't kids running around too.
Posted 11.23.2009 | Impact