Quirky Families

Kinship comes in all sorts of packages these days. In loving clans, function trumps form.

So Many Ways to Live and Love

Increasingly, households and communities are not anchored by couples.

Lessons from Stepfamilies

Stepfamilies turn out to be living laboratories for what it takes to create successful relationships.

Where Lesbians Are Legal

A child's view of gay marriage reveals more childish views.

Talent Dynasties

Some families pass talent and skill down the generations like monarchs pass a crown.

Five Tips for Surviving Another Easter or Passover with Your Family

Strategies for Dealing with Passive- Aggressive Relatives


Five types of grandparents and how they shape our lives
Which type of grandparent did you have?


Sometimes parents have special needs, too
Boys are better at math...in this cartoon


Warning, Ladies - Life on the Lam Isn't a Bed of Roses
A mass murderer and the women who loved him


The Case for the Only Child
Busting the myths about only children.


The Grandmaster Experiment
How did one family produce three of the most successful female chess champions ever?


Going Solo Is the New Normal
Is this the new standard of full adulthood?


Grandparents Raising Grandchildren
Why has the number of grandparents raising grandchildren skyrocketed?

Why It's Easier to Love Your Stepdad
The tensions between stepmothers and stepchildren.

What One Mom Learned About Infertility Could Fill a Book (and Did)
No one expects infertility. Yet everyone has an opinion about it.

Caregiving and the family
Families coping with caregiving find help in a new toolkit

Author Jessica Blau: Drinking Closer to Home
Novel explores quirky family values.

Family in the Lives of Adults without Children: 3 Creative Lines of Thinking
The many meanings of family

Parent Sibling Twins as Individuals
You must treat twins as individuals—not twins.