I first met my step-father when I was five, and my brothers were eleven and thirteen. He was not my step-father back then, of course, and would not officially marry my mother for another seven years, ...

Parenting is widely understood to be a challenging experience: a decades-long endeavor that parents often lament is conducted without any perfect guidebook. While such conventional wisdom is true, ...

The absence of a father is an emotional wound that deeply marks a child's life. Psychology has studied the effects of this absence, concluding that it can create various emotional and psychological ...