Parenting

The teen pregnancy rate is on the decline, but the new face of the unwed mother is a young 20-something who has graduated high school and is more than likely living with the child's father. Why the shift?

It's becoming more and more common. In fact, about one in five high school boys has been diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD.

We know a lot about how babies learn to talk, and youngsters learn to read. Now scientists are unraveling the earliest building blocks of math — and what children know about numbers as they begin first grade seems to play a big role in how well they do everyday calculations later on.

We’ve all heard the Harry Chapin classic “Cat’s in The Cradle” and we’re all touched by the sadness of the man discussed in the song who let the growth of his son slip away and ended up neglected by the same boy he couldn’t make time for. “He’d grown up just like me, my boy was just like me.”

Random drug testing of middle school students is an effective tool in preventing substance abuse in the future according to a seven-year study by The Partnership for a Drug-Free New Jersey (PDFNJ) and Fairleigh Dickinson University's PublicMind.

Children's unfiltered honesty can be as heart-meltingly adorable as it is embarrassing. (What parent hasn't wished for an invisibility cloak after a loud proclamation by their child in the middle of the grocery store?) Valentine's Day gives kids a chance to put that honesty to good use while telling their family members how much they care...

A new Center for Disease Control report shows on average, one in five high school girls routinely binge drink.

When Aubrey Ireland left for college she had a good relationship with her parents. They had always supported her interest in music and acting and offered to pay her tuition to the University of Cincinnati's prestigious College-Conservatory of Music, even though she had received scholarships from other schools.

With many families purchasing new televisions during the holiday season, a new report released today by Safe Kids Worldwide reveals that every three weeks, a child dies from a television tipping over and nearly 13,000 more children are injured each year in the U.S.

Over the weekend Jeff Deminski called the police on someone over the weekend because they left their kids in the car. How would you have handled it?