A Million Missing Babies

December 7, 2011

Are we pricing the cost of child-rearing out of our own reach? Last year, a million missing babies told us we are.

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The Magic That Followed 9/11

September 9, 2011

It was just a birthday party, but our Hogwarts adventure provided some much-needed magic in the days after 9/11.

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Bonus Years

September 2, 2011

After three “bonus years” of living with parents after college, a daughter sets out on her own today. This boomerang won’t return again.

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The Kids Are Alright; Parents Will Be, Too

September 2, 2010

Across the country, families have been packing their children (and a roomful of their children’s possessions) into trucks and SUVs and heading for college. It’s a big day for parents and students alike. For the colleges, though, it’s just one more start to one more school year. Some of them wish the parents would just go home already. This, at least, is the gist of a recent New York Times …

Getting Safely Home

June 17, 2010

While Laurence and Marianne Sunderland waited for their 16-year-old daughter, Abby, to be rescued from her disabled sailboat in the Indian Ocean last week, parents everywhere waited with them. My own youngest daughter happened to be on a journey of her own at the same time, so I especially empathized. My daughter’s was a much shorter and safer trip, on the interstate highways from Chicago to New York at the …

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