Explosions near the Boston Marathon finish line have killed at least two and injured at least 23. While local and national authorities still don’t know what caused the blasts, aid organizations are ready help connect victims with their loved ones and coordinate any volunteer efforts to support those in need. The American ...

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day — so why are you letting your kid pick what you’ll eat? A new study from the NPD Group shows that parents defer to their children about a third of the time when it comes to deciding what to eat for ...

When my son Nic became addicted to methamphetamine and other drugs, I was panicked, overwhelmed, and desperate to save his life but had no idea what to do. I’d heard about rehab, where you send people with drug problems, but I soon learned that there’s no standard definition; it’s a generic ...

In the recent slew of coverage of What’s Holding Women Back from the Highest Echelons of Leadership, a recurring theme is the revolution at home. Or lack thereof. Men, as I wrote in TIME’s recent cover story on Sheryl Sandberg’s book Leaning In, have generally made room for women in the ...

Sheryl Sandberg’s new book, with its bracingly Nietzschean title — Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead — and its stupendously accomplished young author, represents the leading edge of contemporary American feminism. It’s a school of thought that devolves from a simple and stark truth: while women have ...

Data released by the Commerce Department last week showed that personal income fell 3.6% in January, the biggest decline in 20 years. The drop was even bigger when taxes and inflation are taken into account. Real personal disposable income fell by 4%, the biggest monthly drop in half a century. In part, ...

In a veritable sea of parenting books, the title of the newest entry makes even the most skeptical parent sit up and take note: The Secrets of Happy Families. The latest book by best-selling author Bruce Feiler contains a refreshing amount of counterintuitive advice: forget family dinners, for example. And let ...

It’s about evolution; if dads aren’t around, mothers-to-be make subconscious calculations to balance their needs against those of their children. In a report published in the American Journal of Human Biology, researchers say that in U.S. counties where women outnumber men, more babies are born underweight. Researchers at the University of Michigan ...

Parents try to be fair, but children pick up on subtle differences in the way they are treated. In a study appearing in the journal Child Development, researchers led by Jennifer Jenkins, a professor of Human Development and Applied Psychology at the University of Toronto, report on the wide-ranging effects that ...

Are today’s young adults struggling for too long, unable to leave the nest after years of helicopter parenting— or are they just reliving the same issues that previously stumped their elders? New York Times magazine writer Robin Marantz Henig and her daughter Samantha Henig, an editor at the New York ...