Parenting
Stay-at-home moms: More vulnerable to depression than working moms?
Posted on May 21, 2012, at 3:10 PMA quarter of stay-at-homes moms say they struggle with malaise, compared to just 16 percent of working moms, according to a new Gallup survey
Can you trademark your baby's name?
Posted on May 18, 2012, at 10:57 AMBeyonce and Jay-Z take the legal route to ensure that nobody steals Blue Ivy Carter's name. For ordinary parents, though, the quest for a unique moniker is more complicated
Strange trend alert: Moms who freeze their adult daughters' eggs
Posted on May 15, 2012, at 1:05 PMMore and more Americans are trying to increase their chances of becoming grandparents by footing the bill for their daughters' experimental, and expensive, fertility treatments
TIME's jaw-dropping breast-feeding cover: Too provocative?
Posted on May 10, 2012, at 3:23 PMThe newsweekly's latest cover features a gangly 3-year-old boy latched onto his mother's breast, igniting debate over attachment parenting — and the image's propriety
Parents who pay their grown children's bills: By the numbers
Posted on May 4, 2012, at 12:18 PMOnce parents were supposed to take care of their kids until they left home. Now Mom and Dad are subsidizing their offspring well into their adult years
The cost of overprotective parenting: Breaking children's legs?
Posted on April 27, 2012, at 1:08 PMTrying to help your young child have a fun, injury-free playground experience is a natural instinct. But it can backfire
Drinking hand sanitizer and 9 other unsettling teen substance-abuse trends
Posted on April 26, 2012, at 7:30 AMIt seems kids these days will huff or consume just about anything to get high. Here, a guide to the everyday products teens are misusing
'Human Barbie' Sarah Burge: 5 reasons she's the 'worst mother' ever
Posted on April 23, 2012, at 3:31 PMA British mother faces a backlash from parents outraged that she's given her 7-year-old daughter $20,500 worth of vouchers for a future boob job and liposuction
Is Tennessee trying to ban hand-holding?
Posted on April 17, 2012, at 2:05 PMLegislators want to expand their abstinence-only curriculum to discourage students from "gateway sexual activity" — maybe even kissing and holding hands
The disturbing rise of the deadly childhood 'choking game'
Posted on April 17, 2012, at 10:35 AMResearchers take a fresh look at a risky thrill that's been around for years, and health experts are alarmed at what they find
Inside the super-sized life of TLC's Duggar family: By the numbers
Posted on April 10, 2012, at 10:25 AMTo feed their 19 children, the Arkansas family spends $3,000 a month on groceries, chowing through 48 boxes of cereal and more than 1,000 eggs
Puberty... at 6 years old?
Posted on April 3, 2012, at 1:20 PMMore and more girls are physically maturing long before they hit their teens — and doctors are worried this might be the new "normal"
Is forcing a 7-year-old to diet cruel?
Posted on March 30, 2012, at 4:22 PMA Manhattan mom gets a book deal — and a torrent of online scolding — after hounding her daughter into losing 16 pounds, and then documenting the process in Vogue
Ick factor: Why is Alicia Silverstone feeding her child like a baby bird?
Posted on March 28, 2012, at 11:53 AMThe actress posts a disturbing mealtime video, and parents across the nation reach for their barf bags
Colorado's ruined Easter egg hunt: Helicopter parents gone too far?
Posted on March 27, 2012, at 1:30 PMA beloved annual tradition is wrecked by inexcusably childish behavior — from the parents, not the kids
Free condoms... for 12-year-olds?
Posted on March 21, 2012, at 1:30 PMA Massachusetts school district plans to give middle schoolers prophylactics and a sex-ed lecture. Many parents are less than pleased
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