Some articles require more than just a correction. They call for an explanation. That’s the case with one I wrote last week about the first father t...

Editor's Note: An earlier version of this story said that Jerry Cammarata sued the New York City Board of Education and won a ruling from the Equal Em...

Without state support for early parenting, being present in those precious early months is a class-based privilege, one that ultimately exacerbates the very class disadvantage that creates unequal access to the luxury of parenting in the first place.

When Australia passed a parental leave law in 2010, it left the U.S. as the only industrialized nation not to mandate paid leave for mothers of newbor...

What we should be debating is paid Family Leave.

It is ironic that the individuals who champion family values and cry it from mountain tops left and right (mostly right) are the ones that are conspicuously absent when it comes to providing families with such an important provision as a decent parental leave.

Things have changed little, if at all, for men. Companies of all sorts often offer illegally short paternity leaves, even companies without a history of blowing off other federal mandates.

What Americans need is a set of laws, government programs and business practices that support babies and their families.

According to a new report, "Dads Expect Better," conducted by the National Partnership for Women & Families, at least 66 countries guarantee a father...

In the race to be bigger, faster, stronger, we've lost sight of what makes us better: Time with each other.

From the aging population and the need for work-life balance for both genders, to the struggles of the working class to adapt to a weak economy, culture is part and parcel of the top five issues affecting working families today.