I have sickle cell. When you are sick, you do whatever you can to seem well, even cheat your way to it. By Sara Bivigou.

There are enormous benefits to reading to your child. My son and I started the nightly bedtime story routine when he was…

If Goldilocks tried various parents, here’s the one she’d choose.

It's official. From January 1, 2016 China will allow two children for every couple. Chinese lawmakers rubber-stamped the new legislation Sunday during a session of the National People's Congress Standing Committee, which governs the country's laws, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported. "The state advocates that one couple shall be allowed to have two children," according to the newly revised Law on Population and Family Planning.

In an episode of Modern Family called "Aunt Mommy," Claire drunkenly agrees to be an egg donor for brother Mitchell and his partner Cameron. If Cameron provides the sperm and Claire provides the egg, they reason, the resulting baby would have DNA from both dads. Though laced with sitcom-style goofiness, the episode sheds light on a serious problem faced by same-sex couples who want to start families.

A 2-year-old boy died in a home used as a methamphetamine lab after his parents left him alone in his room with a heater turned on – and didn’t check on him, police in Missouri said. Braydon Barnes was put in his crib on a Friday and left unattended with a space heater on for more than 38 hours, St. Charles police said. Both parents Kathleen Peacock and Lucas Barnes told police they had used methamphetamine recently.

The Right still likes to cling to the idea that children of same-sex parents somehow suffer compared to nuclear families with a traditional mother and father. But they never seem to want to hear from the children themselves. Below, kids of gay p...

Happy Holidays /t/parenting ! By the way my son lasted 14 years so far!!!!! poor kid.

"Hoverboards" are bound to be on every kid’s Christmas wish list this year, but there are some serious safety concerns of which you need to be aware.

Katherine W was seven when her third-grade teacher issued Chromebooks to her class. Her dad, Jeff, is a serious techie, but the school's tech choices didn't sit well with him. He was able to get Katherine an exception that let her use a more private, non-cloud computer for the year, but the next year, Katherine's school said she would have to switch to a laptop that would exfiltrate everything she did to Google's data-centers.

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Could you raise four children in a shelter without spanking? By Olga Khazan.

He has traveled so far, from near-fatal abuse to here, invisible among Maine’s poorest, in the care of grandparents who have little left to give but love - and just enough of that. Yet somehow Strider is climbing. How high? How far? By Sarah Schweitzer.

Terri Roberts was at the theatre where she worked when the call came. It was her husband, Chuck. Terri should come straight away, he said, to their son Charlie’s house. Terri knew instantly, from the tone of Chuck’s voice, that it was serious. She didn’t ask questions, just ran to her car. And it was on the short drive that she turned on the radio and heard for the first time about a shooting incident that morning at a school in a nearby town.

Maysa, a teenager from Brussels, was a music fan and a ‘ray of sunshine’ at school. But an encounter on social media had changed her within a year

Zebra finches squawk at each other if someone is shirking its duty

Think back to your favorite childhood doll or stuffed animal—the places you took it, the awkward situations it inadvertently found its way into, the conversations you had with it... By Mary Emily O'Hara.

A tragic accident exposes the dangers of an out-of-control billion-dollar industry. By Jesse Hyde. [Autoplay Video]