Readers reacted to my column from the 13-year-old dealing with parents who split up. The email below was the most poignant. Q. I’m glad that 13-year-old had you to talk with. My family isn’t big on ...

DEAR ANNIE: I am a high school senior trying to decide where to go to college, and I feel completely torn. My parents have made it very clear that they want me to study business. They both work in ...

Whatever we believe about the effects of divorce on young children, we often assume "parental divorce won't hurt an adult child." Foster, a writer for the Washingtonian and a member of the "lost-nest ...

Children don't learn calm from what they're told — they learn it from what they watch. Here are three everyday behaviors ...

“You’re not a bad daughter,” I told my patient, a grown woman with children of her own. Her body shook as she sobbed. Her 87-year-old mother was in failing health, living in an upscale assisted-living ...