Parenting

Child Body Image

Study: Body image issues begin as early as age 8

Vaccine injury, disability and death: Making space for difficult stories

Sick child in hospital

Police: Father put anti-anxiety drugs in 2-year-old's cereal

Eid letter to a Muslim mother: Reflections on friendship and faith

Muslim mother and child

Study: Smoking near toddlers likely as bad as smoking while pregnant

Second Hand Smoke

Co-breastfeeding, married female couple reflects: Inducing lactation, gratitude and respect

The Arciaga-Spears family

Thanks to Obamacare, the average woman is saving significantly on birth control

Police: Parents forced daughter to live in woods as punishment after eating Pop Tart

Infant found on side of Maryland road

Helicopter parents may cause more harm than good: Slate

Why I let my daughter play with Barbie dolls of all races

Baby rescued after forgetful parents leave her floating out at sea

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Ordered to live with an abuser: How and why American family courts fail children

Child Abuse 2

Pa. Senate passes bill to remove parental rights of rape offenders who conceive children

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Working moms have more successful daughters, sweeter sons: Harvard Business School

Working Moms

PA Dept. of Education OKs first private school for gifted

The Grayson School

How do women with big jobs balance work and family? Local author Laura Vanderkam’s surprising findings

Laura Vanderkam

Dear Angel Soft, I am a single mother and I do not endorse your message

Happy Father's Day Mom

Breast Memories: Remembering the breast-feeding years

Breast Memories Feature Photo

Conversations with kids: 5 things children don't want parents to know

Syreeta Martin and her daughter Arionna

N.J. Senate committee OKs bill authorizing breast milk bank licenses

Breast Milk Bank

One boy slumbers while another suffers: A mother reflects on Hironimus vs. Nebus

Mother circumcision case

11 entrepreneurs creating wacky, wonderful inventions in Philly

Biomeme Team

Daddy Jekyll, Daddy Hyde: Transforming patterns of verbal abuse for the sake of our children

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Father's viral video sparks conversation on cyber shaming kids

Social Media Shaming

Failure is impossible: The significance of the Hironimus vs. Nebus circumcision case for America

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Update: Federal circumcision lawsuit dropped by jailed mother

Circumcision surgery

Secondhand media smoke: When children are exposed to violent inflight content

inflight entertainment

Majority of parents think their overweight children are the 'right weight'

Giving birth to life and death

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New labels address medications' impact on moms-to-be

The price of parenthood

Mother’s Day Special: Local celebs share stories about Mom

Dom Streater and her mother

The practice of eating the placenta post-baby

YouTube prankster conducts social experiment on child abduction

Child Abduction

Five for Friday: Marni Duffy

Marni Duffy

America's parenting coach: Dr. Laura Markham on peaceful parenting practices

Parenting

Montco school scolds family for 'unexcused' trip to Boston Marathon

Royal baby watch: Raising an infant in Victorian England vs. now

Raising a gender nonconforming child

Lessons from a lemonade stand

Personal Finance

Using allowances to teach kids about money, responsibility

First infant MRI study finds babies feel pain 'like adults'

CIO Sad Baby

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