Generation Zii

“For some families, when you lose your home, you lose your job, what do you do? You go to your family,” said Paul Taylor, co-author of the, who described the phenomenon as “the ultimate social safety net.”

“…an enormous factor is poverty and systemic racism. If you’re a poor or black woman in America, you’re way more likely to die in childbirth. African-American women are four times more likely to die in childbirth than a white woman,...

With Toy Fair 2010 now in the books, it’s time to review the “best in show” awards for the best toys of 2010 according to the Toy Industry Association. And highlighting the list are two familiar toy lines, Bakugan and...

Even kids can get rattled by a recession. Jordan Fox, 12, is a middle schooler in Rocklin, Calif. His parents earn steady paychecks, but he’s seen the headlines and heard the stories of families who have lost their jobs or...

When my son had some funky test results after a medical check-up last year, his doctor’s first advice to me was “don’t Google it.” I did anyway, of course, and he was right. Googling was a bad idea.

Do we know our place as parents or better yet do our kids know theirs? A dear friend of the family who is a professional educator for primary school aged children stayed with us for a week.  I was thrilled...

Young adults who were conceived through in-vitro fertilization are doing as well as the average young American as far as physical health, though their rates of certain psychological problems appear elevated, a new study finds.

“When a film sets itself up as an unwincing account of the beauty of family difference and variety, not mentioning that families can contain people of different races–and discussing that–is a glaring oversight.” Related: HBO “A Family is a Family”

A new Australian study has found that mums working part-time raise healthier children than their counterparts who stay at home or have a full-time job.

As for that prototypical nuclear family all gathered around one TV – just 16 percent of homes fit that description.