On one of my visits to New Guinea, I met a young man named Enu, whose life story struck me then as remarkable. Enu had grown up in an area where child-rearing was extremely repressive, and where ...

LITTLE ROCK — I don't know about you, but I'm ready for the 1960s to be over and done with. That destructive decade has ruled American parenting for 40 years and pretty well ruined it in the process.

Child abuse. Molestation. Neglect. They aren't exactly topics that people want to explore at your average neighborhood party or gathering. But they are exactly the issues handled on a daily basis at ...

REMEMBER KORRYN Ronda Dormeus is raising her 9-year-old granddaughter after the child’s mother was shot and killed by police over an unresolved traffic violation. (Photo by Sharon K. Sobotta) One of ...

There is "parenting" and then there is bringing up, rearing, or raising children. The difference is night and day; so are the outcomes, short- and long-term, to all concerned, meaning every single one ...

In the 1960s, as part of an overall, culture-wide paradigm shift, a sea change took place concerning our collective understandings concerning the rearing of children. The two fundamental questions in ...

Parenting may be an art, not a science, but journalist Po Bronson argues that there is plenty of data to help inform parents about how to raise good kids. Bronson wrote the book NurtureShock: New ...

There is child rearing and there is parenting. America replaced the former with the latter in the 1970s, and it’s been downhill ever since. My mother, a single parent during most of my formative years ...

Over the past couple of weeks, we've gotten more than a few requests from readers to recommend some books on pregnancy and child-rearing. Unfortunately, we haven't actually read many of these books ...

A few years ago, I took a course in performance driving that culminated in two hours of lapping the track in an open-wheel formula race car at 130 mph. Prepping for that exhilaration included ...