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In Heidi Reimer’s debut novel, “The Mother Act,” a daughter grapples with being parented (or not) by an actress who…

A report by Stanford researchers cautions that the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children doesn’t have the resources to…

The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on whether to honor a spouse’s seemingly irrational request about privacy and assisted reproduction.

For many parents and guardians, putting a child on a flight alone may seem terrifying. Belligerent passengers, delays, turbulence: All…

The News For parents struggling with mental health or substance use disorders, access to treatment can often mean the difference…

A self-described “mom in tennis shoes,” now the Senate Appropriations Committee leader, managed to win an increase in child care…

The choreographers Baye & Asa usher the Sphinx puzzler into a vaguely menacing landscape.

Produced by ‘The Ezra Klein Show’ American policy is uniquely hostile to families. Other wealthy countries guarantee paid parental leave…

Two years after one of her children received a generous birthday gift, a reader wonders whether to intervene on behalf…

Letting children work in the train system during school hours breaks several laws and rules. But a series of agencies…