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How often does your family have dinner together?

Are you facing a summer full of storms from a teenager whose behavior has become rebellious and out of control?

Sometimes miracles aren’t as simple as they look. Sometimes they depend on decisions we’ve made before, and whether we listened to the still, small...

Your child is asking for a cell phone. But how do you know if she is ready for her own phone? And how do you know if you are ready for her to have...

We have heard that line — “the kids will be better off” — a thousand times. But the sad truth is that divorce does not necessarily better the lives...

More than 2.4 million grandparents are raising their grandchildren, according to the 2000 U.S. Census. It is hard to get one’s mind wrapped around...

Across the country, school systems are paying children to do better in school. Both inside and outside the classroom, striving for virtue is being...

Anger in your teenager can take on many faces. It can be a seething anger kept quietly below the surface, or a tidal wave unleashed on everyone...

To help parents get a handle on the issue of online predators, the following is an attempt to separate fact from fiction as it applies to behaviors...

The Bible has something for everyone when it comes to the subject of fatherhood...

Having lost my father at an early age, I didn’t know the worth of a father – not until I could see it up close and personal in the joyful...

"Generation Divas" are tween girls who are becoming obsessed with hair, make-up, clothing, and body image at earlier and earlier ages. Why?

As a wife and mother of two young men who are being raised in an anti-male culture that spews the mantra of radical feminism, I'd like to say a few...

Jon & Kate Plus Eight have crept into the culture to the degree that the general population thinks that they are an accurate representation of life...

Is it better to work through a tough marriage or to relieve your children of the constant marital strife with a divorce? Elizabeth Marquardt...