What if your son’s school thinks he might be a potential school shooter?

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.

Baseball and complicated father/son relationships.

The answer to the disparity in death rates has everything to do with the lived experience of being a black woman in America.

Forgetting a child in the backseat of a car is a horrifying mistake. But is it a crime?

A late night host finds a new voice.

Leïla Slimani’s best-seller explores the dark relationship of a mother and her babysitter.

“To fight for my son, I have to argue that he should never have been born.”

A journey to Disney World with kids and weed.

New love, lost love, and origins.

A story of parenting, flying, and skylands.

A mom looks back on the “brief but wondrous experience” of raising her son Mattie, a little boy poet with a devastating rare disease who earned a following around the world.

In family court, judges must decide whether the risks at home outweigh the risks of separating a family.

The writer on his father's religious devotion to personal style. Among the maxims: "the turtleneck is the most flattering thing a man can wear"; "there is nothing like a fresh burn"; and "always wear white to the face."

Ray Spencer went to jail for 20 years for molesting his kids. Then they started to question their memories.

A brutal custody battle raises questions about who has a right to rear a child and what the legal meaning of a family should be.

“How do you catch someone up on your entire life?”

A father and son bond over baseball and deceptions.

On becoming a stepmom.

“I took my son to Paris fashion week, and all I got was a profound understanding of who he is, what he wants to do with his life, and how it feels to watch a grown man stride down a runway wearing shaggy yellow Muppet pants.”

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.