Parenting

In years past, parents would often quiet a crying child by giving him a toy or popping a pacifier in his mouth. But these days, it’s more likely that fussy kid will wind up with mom’s cell phone instead.

A Chicago woman claims that she was fired from her job as a manager and server at the popular Northside Bar & Grill because she became pregnant. She is now suing her former employer for discrimination.

Want to make your kids better people? Here’s new that will be music to your ears.

Pretty much everyone knows that raising a child is getting more and more expensive. But did you know that the cost of doing so went up $8,000 in just one year?

Mother’s Day and Father’s Day are in the rearview mirror. We’ve shown how much we love our folks, no matter how nuts they make us.

Even though you love your kids dearly and want to spend time with them, the months that kids are out of school can be the longest of the year for any parent. The key to a peaceful summer household is keeping the kids busy and entertained.

It appears that children with same-sex parents occasionally turn out significantly worse than those children that come from stable married heterosexual parents. That’s the word from a new, controversial study out of the University of Texas.

Over the past decade, there has been a significant amount of evidence collected that suggests that having children does not make people happy.

It’s no secret that certain kinds of cribs — especially the drop-side variety — can pose a danger to your children. But a new report by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention says that toys, bumpers and blankets kept in cribs can be hazardous, as well.

The Social Security Administration has come out with its annual list of the most popular baby names, and for the 13th straight year Jacob was the number one name for a boy. This is part of a broader trend toward names from the Old Testament (or possibly ‘Twilight‘), with Noah snagging the fifth spot and Elijah and Joshua at 13 and 14.