Family

What a Tattered Pillow Taught Me About Grieving

By Lauren DePino

I'm Grateful for the Hugs I Can Now Share–and Haunted by the Ones I Can't

By Nicole Chung

How My Ex Became One of My Best Friends

By Claire Fuller

Why Would a Long-Term Couple Like Bill and Melinda Gates Get Divorced? Here's What Marriage Therapists Say

By Belinda Luscombe
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Does Birth Order Really Determine Personality? Here's What the Research Says

One Friday afternoon at a party, I’m sitting next to a mother of two. Her baby is only a couple of weeks old. They’d taken a long time, she tells me, to come up with...

By Lynn Berger April 13, 2021

How to Talk to Family Members About Politics

"We're kind of a peace-loving family," says Houston neurologist Dr. Steve Croft of his clan of five, including his wife, two sons and a daughter. Or at least they were until some time in 2018,...

By Belinda Luscombe February 19, 2021

One Dad's Commitment to Homemade Airport Signs Cannot Be Topped or Stopped

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By Megan McCluskey December 16, 2019

Why You Should Teach Your Kids to Cook

"Have you ever baked a cake before?" I asked Quinn, 9, at the beginning of a recent recipe-testing session in Boston. He seemed a little nervous as he shook his head no. But just over...

By Molly Birnbaum December 5, 2019

Alelia Murphy, Oldest Living American, Dies at 114

When asked for her secret to living such a long life, Murphy responded, "Trust in God and be a good person."

By Madeleine Carlisle November 28, 2019

A 1970 Law Led to the Mass Sterilization of Native American Women. That History Still Matters

Over the six-year period that had followed the passage of the Family Planning Services and Population Research Act of 1970, physicians sterilized perhaps 25% of Native American women of childbearing age

By Brianna Theobald November 27, 2019

What Almost Four Years in the Land of Infertility Taught Me About Waiting

To wait: there was a period in my life when I considered the verb just about the most heinous in the English language. My wife and I coupled late, on this (she) and that (me)...

By Michael Frank November 18, 2019

Daughter Tells Heroic Dad She Doesn't Love Him As Much As Mommy and His Reaction Just Takes the Cake

Kids really do say the darnedest things

By Megan McCluskey September 19, 2019

How Family Breakfasts Became the New Family Dinner

Breakfast, it is oft alleged, is the most important meal of the day. Also a thing of champions. Plus a meal you really can have at Tiffany's (as long as you book a month ahead...

By Belinda Luscombe September 5, 2019

Here in the Bahamas, Every Generation Has Its Storm Stories. The Tale of Hurricane Dorian Is Still Being Written

I stayed to ride it out in the dark—water and electricity long since lost—with a handful of family members, all veterans of the islands’ many storms.

By Crystal A. deGregory September 4, 2019
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