The 7th grader’s sext was meant to impress him. It nearly destroyed her.

“My brother Evan was born female. He came out as transgender 16 years ago but never stopped wanting to have a baby. This spring he gave birth to his first child.”

When he was 2, Strider was severely beaten by his mother’s boyfriend. Today, at 6, Strider lives with his grandparents in rural Maine, in and out of poverty, trying to make it.

Each year, California’s child protective services agencies remove thousands of kids from their homes. The story of how some parents decided to fight back.

On being a mom, a wife, and a writer.

Secular crises of two workers at a religious camp.

Swept out to sea by a riptide, a father and his 12-year-old autistic son struggle to stay alive. As night falls, the dad comes to a devastating realization: If they remain together, they’ll drown together.

A father takes his 14-year-old daughter to the Richard Rodgers Theatre.

Immigrant nannies leave their own children behind to care for others’.

A mother’s quest to find a diagnosis for her daughter’s mysterious condition.

A young girl uses unusual coping mechanisms after her father's death.

Mother's Day triggers a wealth of memories and characters, past and present.

Should having an intellectual disability disqualify a mother from raising her child?

An Alabama woman took the equivalent of one Valium during her pregnancy. A few weeks after she gave birth, she became one of more than 1,800 new and expecting mothers arrested under the state’s chemical endangerment law.

A father’s attempt to combat the wage gap.

The lives of Sue and Hector Badeau, who felt a calling to raise children and adopted twenty of them.

“We still have retrograde ideas about how pregnant women should feel, and we need to revise them — not only for depressed women but for all women.”

Paul Gayle wants to raise his daughter, but he needs a job and a home. What he gets is 16 lessons on fatherhood from the Obama administration.

How one community is struggling to understand and respond to a cluster of suicides.

The author discovers devastating secrets while going through her late father’s belongings.

A home for troubled children in California comes undone.

The government says Matt DeHart is an online child predator. DeHart—and his parents—say he’s being framed over his knowledge of CIA secrets.

Family problems and a myriad of solutions.

"I don’t know if my husband and I are on the way to church or a hangover. It is too early in the drive to tell. The first Thursday of every month, my husband’s sister comes over to watch the kids. They are too old for a sitter, but the older one keeps trying to kill herself and we don’t want to risk it. Always keep an eye on them, I tell my sister-in-law. Don’t leave them alone for a second, not even to ice a cake, organize a closet, dry the dishes, say a prayer."