Family

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  • No one can understand an orphan

    Only someone who's been through it can know what's like to lose both parents at 16
  • Mom, lawyer, musician?

    I have very little time but love playing the guitar!
  • My wife is bipolar. Should I leave and take the kids?

    She attempted suicide and brandished a knife. How do I protect our children?
  • Mom says dump the boyfriend or leave home!

    We got caught making out and now my mom's all like you have to break up with him if you want to keep living here
  • Jon minus Kate plus eight

    The beleaguered couple calls it quits, but the show must go on!
  • I'm stuck in Atlanta, he's stuck in Seattle

    My work is here, his work is there: How will we ever get together?
  • My mother is crazy -- what can I do?

    She has persecution complexes and paranoia, which is why she won't see a doctor!
  • My ADHD 8-year-old

    I overcame a violent past, but my kid is testing my limits.
  • Beware the stepmonster!

    A sympathetic new book about the family member everyone loves to hate suggests even the best stepmoms in the world are set up to fail miserably.
  • I cannot watch violence on TV or in movies

    My family thinks it's just entertainment, but it leaves me anxious and sleepless.
  • Mothering heights

    A shout-out to all of you childless singles out there, from the self-righteous mothers of the world!
  • My parents treat me like a child

    I'm 25, but they don't want me to be independent.
  • I lost my inheritance on a "technicality"

    Due to an "error," the stepdaughter gets everything.
  • Need some balm for the soul

    Dad died, lover left me, unemployed, things are tough, could use a lift.
  • My sisters exclude me and it hurts

    They even take my own friends away!
  • My husband wants kids but I like things the way they are

    We've got a great life going. Let's not spoil it.
  • The monster inside my son

    For years I thought of his autism as beautiful and mysterious. But when he turned unspeakably violent, I had to question everything I knew.
  • Sleeping with the in-laws

    His parents are small-town farm people and I don't like them!
  • How I ended up living with my in-laws

    In a rotten economy, more adults are showing up on their parents' doorstep. I just never thought my wife and I would be among them.
  • All God's children

    The Quiverfull movement saddles women with a life of submission and near-constant pregnancies. One mother explains how she embraced the extreme Christian lifestyle -- and why she left.
  • Dad's a drifter with a secret

    I found out my father's having an affair. Should I tell my mom?
  • Runaway daughters

    After her teenagers hit the streets, author Debra Gwartney faced desperation and panic. She talks about why her children left -- and how they finally returned.
  • Selfish grannies!

    A New York Times faux-trend story about "glam-mas" who can't be bothered with the little ones.
  • So you still want to date a banker?

    In this sinking economy, the media trots out icky cliches about spoiled women and emasculated men -- maybe because the reality is so much messier.
  • Scenes from a housing boom

    At the height of the real estate bubble, I was desperate to buy a home. I had no idea what kind of trouble I was borrowing.
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