Family

Two years after Election Day, Trump dominates virtually every aspect of public life. How about we take a break for a day?

There's more evidence that selfishness is self-defeating.

The Tribal Canoe Journey has become one of the largest Native American gatherings in North America. For one writer, it's also a chance to connect with family.

People scramble to reach the roof of an overcrowded train at a station in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on August 20th, 2018.

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An unplanned child used to derail the education of girls in the country, but a new approach is helping young mothers stay in school.

Across the country, people are becoming unexpected caregivers of children whose parents have become addicted to opioids. In most states, they're doing it with little to no help at all.

A collection of our best stories for you during the holiday.

There were some 100 anti-LGBTQ bills released in various states in the first few months of 2017 alone, including religious exemptions in the workplace and restricted access to health care for LGBTQ citizens.

They can feel as lifelike as virtual reality, but memories represent unreachable places.

This Thanksgiving, skip the extra beer and take the higher ground in your family debate; chances are, your relatives will follow your example.

A mother reflects on raising her three children alone.

My brother has Down syndrome and happens to be non-verbal. I've spent 20 years learning new ways to listen.

New research finds body odor is less disgusting if we share an identity with the smelly person in question.

It depends on their attitudes toward risky sex, pregnancy, and birth control, a new study finds.

A frustrating, but ultimately fulfilling, father-daughter surf adventure in El Salvador.

There are many reasons people still do it—and to misunderstand them is to misunderstand the possibilities of the modern family.

An early education in the hollowness of patriotic performance.

How a small piece of technology had a human-sized impact on a mother's relationship to her child.

One reporter marvels over how the things he cherishes most about his parents aren’t those that he would have ever imagined.

If the unwelcome death of her uncle taught Emily Mullin anything it's that our lives are transient and largely out of our control.

How does it feel to be the biological parent of your sister's child or the aunt of the children you birthed? Americans are finding out.

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