Yatzer contributor Eleni Papaioannou reflects on family bonds and photographer Kristen Schmid's heart-warming 'Father to Son' project.

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If you’re active on social media, you may have come across Angel Soft’s Father’s Day commercial, “Happy Father’s Day, Mom.” In the commercial, a diverse group of people with various backstories explain how their mothers worked hard to raise them. It starts off rather heartwarmingly, as they share the circumstances that led to their mothers becoming single and forced them to “step up” for their children.

I get asked a lot of questions about how I raise my son, as though I am some sort of authority on the topic. I am not. In fact, I’m kind of a goof. However, I have strong opinions on certain aspects of parenting and don’t mind answering your questions, so long as you keep in …

Parents often complain their teenagers are moody, impulsive and self-centered - but it may not be their fault. The secret to understanding teens' behavior may lie in understanding their brain.

Economists, sociologists, and developmental psychologists have consistently concluded that background characteristics strongly shape cognitive and behavioral outcomes. When school improvement is not complemented by policies to narrow social class differences, students’ chances of success are greatly diminished.

In a recent Washington Post profile, NARAL Pro-Choice America president Ilyse Hogue explained that a lot of anti-choice activists struggle to wrap their minds around the fact that she's pregnant with twins while fighting for women's right to abort unwanted pregnancies. At a Capitol Hill hearing, Hogue told the Post,...

the key to avoiding unhealthy weight gain is moderation in the consumption of food,” he noted, “even the healthiest food.”Helping children develop healthy eating habits now is the key, the experts say, because the dire consequences are coming fast.

I can't begin to imagine the trauma these 2 kids will go through, especially if they believe what that woman was saying to them.

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Surrender your freedom, avoid daylight, live to work, and you too could join a toxic, paranoid elite. By George Monbiot.

I have been living in the United States for more than a decade, and I now say thank you about 50 times a day. Most of the time, I do it without thinking. I say thank you to the bus driver who takes me from point A to point B along with 20 other people. He usually can’t even hear me. I say thank you to the cashier at the coffee shop. I say thank you to the stranger who holds the door open for me at a restaurant.

Public schools in Hawaii moved away from abstinence-based sex education about five years ago

A father has been arrested after his neighbours didn’t recognise him with a new beard and accused him of kidnapping his own son. Swedish dad Torkel Kristoffers recently grew a beard to replace his normally clean shaven look. The 39 year old father was playing outside with his two year old son, Axel, when the boy asked to be carried in a grocery bag. Torkel agreed and swung Axel in his canvass bag, to the toddler's delight.

A poignant photograph showing Princess Charlotte being held by her older brother Prince George has been released on social media by Kensington Palace.

For a growing child, deprivation and stress can become a kind of neurotoxin.

A judge says the two-year-old should be adopted after a health visitor found he lived in the smokiest house she had ever seen.