All parents have times when emotions override their calm and they may react to their child in ways they regret. Here are ...

Female orangutans are generally solitary, but they travel more and eat less in an apparent effort to ensure their offspring ...

Joanna Stern says her experiment with AI reinforced the importance of human relationships, skepticism, and real-world ...

Scientists have long known that the DNA code in genes is not the only way to pass genetic traits from parents to offspring. "Epigenetic" marks—chemical modifications to DNA that don't change the DNA ...

Perhaps it’s just me, but when my children were young enough for me to attend events at their school, what I didn’t do was spend my time on my phone. And yes, I may be old, but smartphones were ...

When parents think about raising academically strong kids, they immediately think of extra classes, strict schedules, or hours of practice. But when a parent asked families of high-achieving children ...

The bill, which awaits Gov. Kathy Hochul's signature, would replace traditional legal terms such as "mother," "father" and "paternity" with gender-neutral language — "gestating parent," "non-gestating ...

Mom’s not the word. A woke new bill erases the terms “mother” and “father” from state child custody and parental laws — a gender-neutral rewriting that’s expected to spark a flood of similarly clunky ...

Parents are usually the people we turn to for guidance. They're often the ones teaching life lessons, offering support when things go wrong, and helping their kids figure out the world one awkward ...

New York should amend the CSSA to adopt an income-sharing model that explicitly incorporates parenting time in its calculation. (Credit: New Africa/Adobe Stock) New York’s Child Support Standards Act ...