Families with children who look or even feel different still feel the bond -- they understand that all families are different, not better or worse.
Soren Gordhamer | Posted 11.25.2009 | Living
Thanksgiving is one of the few times a year when families come together. Ram Dass used to say that if you ever thought you were enlightened, go spend a week with your parents and siblings.
Jim Wallis | Posted 11.25.2009 | Politics
The broken nature of America's immigration system is deeply felt during the holidays by millions in the United States who long to be reunited with their loved ones.
Pat Earley | Posted 11.21.2009 | Business
Employers must seriously consider the deficiencies in today's workforce and begin to develop solutions to better improve our educational system, create new incentives to attract tomorrow's workers, and stay competitive in a global marketplace.
Beverlye Hyman Fead | Posted 11.21.2009 | Books
My granddaughter who was eight kept my book by her bedside and was fascinated with everything concerning it. One day she told her mother she wanted to do a book report on "I Can Do This."
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 ...
Jill Brooke | Posted 11.17.2009 | Media
Brzezinski seems to lack any compassion for the many women who desperately wanted husbands and children, but fate -- not desire -- worked against them.
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.
Jim Wallis | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics
We've recently seen the abortion rhetoric really heat up to ridiculous proportions. Those with opposing views are being stereotyped and demonized. And facts are taking a back seat to sound bytes.
Washington Post | Tim Craig and Michelle Boorstein | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics
The Catholic Archdiocese of Washington said Wednesday that it will be unable to continue the social service programs it runs for the District if the c...
Washington Post | Theresa Vargas | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics
As the debate over legalizing same-sex marriage in the District grows louder and more polarized, there are people whose support for the proposal is pe...
AMERICAblog Gay | Joe Sudbay | Posted 11.02.2009 | Politics
Funny thing (or not), OFA forgot to tell Mainers what issues are on the ballot and how to vote on those issues. For example, there's no mention of Que...
Pat Nolan | Posted 10.28.2009 | Politics
Maintaining the child-parent relationship during a parent's incarceration improves a child's emotional development and their behavior, and will help keep him or her from following their parent to prison.
Peggy Drexler | Posted 10.21.2009 | Living
Will a daughter taught to be a hard-charging, take-no prisoners competitor with men have trouble adjusting to the necessary give-and-take with the man with whom she shares a home?
AP | HOPE YEN | Posted 11.21.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — Nearly 150,000 same-sex couples reported being in marriage relationships last year, many more than the number of actual weddings an...
Jim Wallis | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics
Beck's predictions that health care reform would lead to government bureaucrats euthanizing people like his daughter are dead wrong, but we at Sojournors agree with Glenn on this point: God is the giver of life.
Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics
Life is still not back to normal four years after Hurricane Katrina ravaged the Gulf Coast on August 29, 2005.
washingtonpost.com | Brigid Schulte | Posted 09.18.2009 | Business
After Debbie Jenkins got sick, couldn't work and lost two houses to foreclosure, after she burned through her savings, moved into an unheated garage i...
Maria Rodale | Posted 09.24.2009 | Living
Working moms usually know how to get things done fast and without fuss. We aren't afraid to do the messy stuff, show tough love, and get us all to the same place in one piece and on time.
Juliet Linley | Posted 08.27.2009 | Living
Why aren't babies in Italy allowed to be babies anymore? Why are they made to feel that seeking the comfort of mummy is something to be ashamed of and scoffed at?
Amitai Etzioni | Posted 08.23.2009 | Living
Family is more than chicken soup.
Jim Wallis | Posted 08.02.2009 | Politics
With an issue like health, deeply personal but of great public concern, the faith community has a unique and important role to play: to define and raise the moral issues that lay just beneath the policy debate.
Bella DePaulo | Posted 07.27.2009 | Living
Who is happier and psychologically stronger - people who got married and then got unmarried, or people who stayed single? The answer, in just about every study I've ever reviewed, is people who have stayed single.
nytimes.com | MICHAEL LUO | Posted 06.29.2009 | Business
LINCOLN, Calif. -- The Ferrells have cut back on dance lessons for their twin daughters. Vaccinations for the family's two cats and two dogs are out. ...
Telegraph | Ian Johnston | Posted 06.25.2009 | Living
Economists claim to have found a correlation between the number of daughters and sons in a household and their father's political views. By analysi...
Peggy Drexler | Posted 11.30.2009 | Living