Saturday is National Adoption Day. This year, Martin Gill is free to mark the day as the official father to two foster children he’s been raising since a caseworker dropped the boys — a feverish baby and his wary 4-year-old …
Family & Parenting
Bye-Bye, Baby: Why Selling Your Crib Hurts
I sold my children’s crib last week. When I share that news, I announce it gravely, with a generous side of melancholy.
Universal Children’s Day: Poor Kids Speak
Saturday, Nov. 20, is Universal Children’s Day, as declared by the United Nations, and a new survey of children illuminates the wants and needs of kids living in poverty.
Study: Moms Who Smoke During Pregnancy Might Have Criminal Kids
Betty Drapers of the world, listen up.
How Prince William is the Model Modern Groom
A royal wedding is a big fat, tasseled (often literally) deal. Outside of fairy tales and Disney movies, new princesses don’t come around too often. But the engagement of Prince William and Kate Middleton is actually a textbook …
Study: Nighttime Sleep Linked With Better Cognitive Skills in Infants
Babies who get most of their sleep at night — as opposed to during daytime naps — do better on tests of executive functioning, including impulse control, mental flexibility and working memory, compared with kids who sleep …
I ♥ Boobies: ACLU Defends Girls’ Right to Wear Sassy Bracelets
I ♥ boobies. They nourish children. They define a woman’s silhouette. And sometimes, they turn toxic.
Job Equality: Stressful Work Raises Women’s Risk of Heart Disease Too
Women who work in high-strain jobs have a higher risk of heart attack, stroke and bypass surgery than women whose work environments create less stress, according to a new study presented in Chicago at a conference of the American …
Are Parents Really Kid Junkies? What the Research Says
On the surface, addiction seems like the least adaptive behavior in the world: addicts persist in taking drugs despite negative consequences over and over and over, sacrificing relationships, career, home, possessions, often …
Attachment Parenting: The Root of all Evil? Erica Jong Thinks So
I have never understood all the fuss about attachment parenting. The term does not resonate with me.
Is Banning Pro-Pedophilia Books the Right Answer?
On Oct. 28, a book called The Pedophile’s Guide to Love and Pleasure: A Child-Lover’s Code of Conduct went on sale in Amazon’s Kindle store.
Are Men the Weaker Sex After All?
Men are dying younger than their female counterparts and of eminently preventable and treatable diseases, according to the Men’s Health Forum, an organization in the U.K. that aims to improve mortality rates in men.
Sperm on Steroids: 6 Inches Long and Raring to Fertilize
Call them sperm on steroids, these 6-inch (15 cm) long wriggly organisms that Australian fertility specialists have magnified more than 7000x to help determine which are most likely to fertilize that lucky egg.