If your adult child is unmotivated, stuck, or disengaged, it may not be laziness at at. Many parents are responding to the ...

Navigating any kind of adult family relationship can be difficult, whether you're learning how to look past hurtful childhood experiences as an adult child or figuring out how to navigate parenting a ...

Blaming yourself — or your child — for the cracks in your relationship isn’t going to make things better between the two of ...

Habits that could be straining your bond with your parents. As children grow into adulthood and their parents reimagine their day-to-day lives, many families experience an inevitable sense of ...

Millions of children worldwide are quietly stepping into adult roles long before they’re ready—carrying the weight of family finances, emotions, and responsibilities meant for their parents. It’s ...

It’s heartbreaking when an adult child distances themselves from their parents, especially when the parent believes they did everything right. But estrangement doesn’t happen overnight. It’s often the ...

If you identify as an adult child of a dysfunctional or chaotic family, you may have noticed a relentless inner pressure to do everything just right. For some adult children, perfectionism is a ...

A recent Cornell study found that 27% of adults are estranged from a family member. Research from Ohio State finds that 26% of fathers are estranged from an adult child—and that fathers are 22% more ...

At the height of the recession in 2012, nearly one in four American children were living in poverty. Today, five years after America went through the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, ...

When a baby enters the world, their brain contains billions of neurons awaiting connection. The first 1,000 days of life, from conception to age two, represent a critical period where over 85% of ...

This is the final story in our series on what it costs to raise a child in 2025, and how families are making it work. Leza and Anthony Dieli are saving about $1,000 a month for their 7-year-old ...

Vishal Talreja is the co-founder and trustee of Dream a Dream, a pioneering non-profit that uses creative life-skills education through sports, arts and experiential learning to help children and ...