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Holiday Survival Guide: How to Handle Your Family’s Most Annoying (and Awkward) Questions
The holidays are the time of year to reunite with family members, and get grilled.
How Social Networks Influence Parents’ Decision to Vaccinate
A small group of parent advocates is mobilizing “gentle propaganda” against vaccine naysayers
How Parents Who Play Favorites Hurt the Entire Family
Parents try to be fair, but children pick up on subtle differences in the way they are treated.
All in the Family: Siblings, Caregiving and Money
How to set sibling rivalries and differences aside to care for aging parents.
Kids and Money: Is It O.K. to Play Financial Favorites?
When parents give more financial aid to one child than another, it can cause family discord, especially if the dealings have been kept secret. Here’s how to handle financial favoritism
Your Adult Child Is Moving Home: Should You Charge Rent?
Tips for dealing with an adult child who’s moving back home
Generation X Report: Men Spend More Time in the Kitchen
Gen Xers are a lot more conscious about their food than their parents were — especially the men, who are cooking and shopping more and watching food TV as much as women.
Amanda Knox’s Family: How They Kept a United, Unconditional Front
As parents, we believe we’d do anything for our children. But not often does that sentiment get as rigorously tested as in the unfortunate experience of Edda Mellas and Curt Knox, Amanda Knox’s mother and father.
Fact-Check: A Survey Links Facebook to Drug Use in Teens
The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) released its annual “Back to School” survey on Wednesday. Among the findings: teens who use social networking sites like Facebook are five times more likely to use …
Children of Divorce Struggle More With Math and Social Skills
Children of divorce have poorer math and interpersonal social skills than their peers, and they battle anxiety, loneliness, low self-esteem and sadness, according to new research published Thursday in the American Sociological Review.
Friends With Benefits: Being Highly Social Cuts Dementia Risk by 70%
Yet more evidence that friends and family are the best medicine: a new study finds that the most social seniors had a 70% reduction in the rate of cognitive decline, compared with their least social peers.
Could Mom’s Stroke Predict Her Daughter’s Heart Attack?
A new study, published in the journal Circulation: Cardiovascular Genetics, finds that a mother’s history of stroke may affect her daughter’s chances of having a heart attack.