‘You don’t need to submit all the inner workings of that decision to him for it to make sense,’ Eleanor Gordon-Smith writes. Painting: Portrait of the Artist’s Parents by Caroline von der Embde, ...

"When Oprah asked one of the adult children in the audience to explain why he had gone no-contact, he described a situation ...

In the newspaper advice column Annie’s Mailbox by Kathy Mitchell and Marcy Sugar, there has recently been a series of letters from the parents of adult children who have cut them out of their lives.

Many parents have had to explain the war in Iraq to their children. Violent images of warfare and an increased risk of terrorism could be damaging to a child. James Garbarino, Ph.D. a child ...