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How can you bring a kid into the world when you can't know in advance if the kid wants to exist?
By Cary Tennis
April 18, 2008
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I just want to make babies. I want it so much I feel insane.
By Cary Tennis
March 31, 2008
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I put everything I had into the hope of raising children. It isn't going to happen. Now what?
By Cary Tennis
March 13, 2008
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I asked him why he was doing the bump and grind with a woman, and he said he thought it would get him laid.
By Cary Tennis
February 20, 2008
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I'm about to be a mom, actually, but I don't want to just be a mom.
By Cary Tennis
February 1, 2008
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A school administrator's wife scolds a student for complaining that school was not shut down during a snowstorm. Her message was caught on tape.
By Farhad Manjoo
January 23, 2008
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My mother is bugging me to go out, but really, with three kids, this isn't the time.
By Cary Tennis
January 23, 2008
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Their father has some issues. What should I say?
By Cary Tennis
December 6, 2007
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An anonymous complaint brought a scary visitor with a list of accusations.
By Cary Tennis
November 30, 2007
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I like where we live, but our house is so cramped. Should we move?
By Cary Tennis
October 17, 2007
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CBS's new reality show "Kid Nation" lets kids run rampant -- with nary an adult in sight. Is that really so bad?
By Linda Perlstein
September 21, 2007
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They thought the baby would fix things, but he didn't, so the dad split. Does that mean he's no good?
By Cary Tennis
August 30, 2007
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A 90-year-old man in India just fathered his 20th or so child -- and wants more.
By Catherine Price
August 23, 2007
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New research suggests that baby-brain DVDs stunt infants' verbal skills, transforming your kid into Pauly Shore rather than Einstein.
By Farhad Manjoo
August 8, 2007
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Girls are tossing their Barbie dolls aside, in favor of dressing up virtual dolls.
By Tracy Clark-Flory
June 6, 2007
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I suspect I got married for the wrong reasons -- am I supposed to remain miserable for the sake of the kids?
By Cary Tennis
May 8, 2007
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I'm crazy in love with my two sisters' five kids. I feel like helping to raise them would give my life meaning.
By Cary Tennis
April 24, 2007
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Must be fertile, with tongue like Dorothy Parker.
By Cary Tennis
February 27, 2007
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After the poor kids next door took advantage of me, I felt sympathy for the people of Houston, who've suffered crime and violence because of struggling Katrina exiles.
By Debra J. Dickerson
December 18, 2006
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We're sticking the next generation with debt and an unjust war. Solution: We must cut healthcare for people with "Bush-Cheney" bumper stickers.
By Garrison Keillor
August 30, 2006
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One writer explains how she and her husband chose their daughters' last names.
By Katharine Mieszkowski
January 13, 2006
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Just what we need -- cellphones for kids!
By Hillary Frey
December 22, 2005
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How do you tell your kids to stay away from drugs when you used to do them, or -- gasp -- still do? What if you don't think drugs are so very wrong?
By Larry Smith
July 13, 2004
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Hide your children! The director of the controversial new film "Bully" and 1995's "Kids" talks about sex, violence and parenting.
By Stephen Lemons
July 20, 2001
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In the wake of school shootings, state legislatures are considering laws to crack down on harassment and violence in schools. How will they tell the bullies from the victims?
By Fiona Morgan
March 15, 2001
We want a kid but don't think it's right to have one
Virginia schools' Web scandalette: "Get over it, kid!"
Kids gone wild
Who says novogenarians can't have fun?
Not in my backyard, either
America eats its young
Do you puff, Daddy?
Larry Clark
Banning the bullies
War Room
How the World Works