The boundaries between my mother and me were often blurred: She was my friend; she was my mother. I was her friend; I was her daughter. I wanted to be like her; I wanted to be like me.
Nia Vardalos | Posted 02.27.2009 | Living
A common misconception about adoption is that to get a kid you just have to go to another country and be as pretty as Angelina Jolie. As studio executives and movie reviewers have informed me again and again, I'm not.
Terry Real | Posted 02.20.2009 | Living
It is in everyone's interest -- the victim, the bully and the bystander -- to create a safe environment in which respect for one another is not just a voluntary matter but a baseline norm that we insist upon.
James Mulvaney | Posted 02.14.2009 | Living
Most of my professional experience involving sexual predation involves undercover stings where some pervert starts up a conversation with a willing "teenager" who turns out to be an undercover cop or agent.
Joan Blades | Posted 02.06.2009 | Living
When you consider that the birth of a child is a leading cause of a "poverty spell" in America, this solution is one simple answer and it turns out it is good for business.
Robert Rose | Posted 02.05.2009 | Living
Some intellectuals tend to think they can detach themselves from their emotions and think purely and more clearly. Dangerous.
Kelly Carlin-McCall | Posted 01.25.2009 | Living
As I sat Christmas morning meditating as the dawn broke here in the middle of the vast Pacific Ocean over Hawaii, I was struck by the many faces of the Ultimate Unknown/Known Otherness that were presented to me.
Carey Polis | Posted 01.13.2009 | Living
I know very few people who are truly happy with their post-college lives. But, as much as I want to conveniently use the term "quarterlife crisis," it's not what's going on.
Robert Rose | Posted 12.25.2008 | Living
I watched and it proved my stance on homework. It creates an adversarial relationship between the parents, between the parents and child, and between the family and the teacher.
Chloe Spencer | Posted 12.20.2008 | Business
Turn your kid into an entrepreneur. Teach him or her about the value of passive income and of building assets--much more valuable than what the average school is teaching.
Sara Whitman | Posted 11.23.2008 | Living
So what if kids do come home and ask about gay families? If you're really such a bigot, just spew out all the hateful things you have to say about homosexuality. See it as a teachable moment.
Roseanne Colletti | Posted 11.23.2008 | Living
"When the bough breaks, the cradle will fall." This venerable children's nursery rhyme takes on a frightening new significance amid the rash of crib recalls. What's going on in "Babyland"?
AP | TOM KRISHER | Posted 11.06.2008 | Business
DETROIT — So you think junior is a little too lead-footed when he drives the family car? Starting next year, Ford Motor Co. will give you the po...
Steve Ralls | Posted 10.30.2008 | Politics
As California voters get ready to weigh in, on November 4, on Proposition 8, some unlikely heroes are rising up in the Golden State and speaking out ...
Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 10.24.2008 | Living
Epilogue is a gripping memoir by National Book Award finalist Anne Roiphe, who was forced to recompose her life after the sudden loss of her husband of 39 years.
Elizabeth Cox | Posted 07.15.2008 | Living
Under our current system it is not possible to have retirement savings in joint name. So for better or worse, richer or poorer, in retirement planning the maxim "he who earns it, owns it" holds true.
New York Times | BENEDICT CAREY | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living
BY age 2 it was clear that the boy had a sensibility all his own, affectionate and distant at the same time, often more focused on patterns and object...
Stephanie Gertler | Posted 02.28.2009 | Living