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Authors, school systems and others are showing increasingly concerted efforts to provide children as young as kindergarten with more and better personal finance and money handling information and skills.

Glen Canning, the father of Rehtaeh Parsons, at his Halifax home earlier this month.

Sunday People columnist Charlie Catchpole can't help wondering if, among all this chaos, sex education lessons somehow got overlooked at one school The study by the respected Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development warned the Government and Ofsted have "seriously underestimated" the scale of classroom indiscipline which is plaguing ... (more)

Dr. Rhonda Matters, P.E.I.'s chief mental health and addictions officer, says the Triple P program will help parents deal with children's behaviour issues.

Genes may play a major role in parenting styles, according to a new study. "The way we parent is not solely a function of the way we were parented as children," said study co-author S. Alexandra Burt, an associate professor of psychology at Michigan State University.

Sprint released a cell phone designed for 5 through 12-year-olds this month, another milestone in technology evolution that begs the consideration of how young is too young for a child to have a cell phone.

As a divorced parent, what lessons and behaviors are you modeling for your children? The messages you convey will influence your children into adulthood.

This undated image provided by Sariah English shows Eric and Charlotte Kaufman with their daughters, Lyra, 1, and Cora, 3. Rescuers saved the family on their crippled sailboat hundreds of miles off the coast of Mexico last month.

America is not a hereditary monarchy. However entertaining it is to speculate, the news seems unlikely to have any real impact on the 2016 presidential election.

She's an actress, a comic, and funny with a capital F. And she knows a few other F words, too a we digress.

In the State of California, a noncustodial dad making $3,000 a month may have to pay nearly half of what he makes in court-ordered support for his three children.

Christina Milian is a chart-topping R&B and hip-hop star best known for hits like "Dip It Low" and her star run on Dancing With the Stars .

Chelsea Clinton, 34, reveals she is PREGNANT: Bill and Hill 'thrilled' as daughter announces she is expecting her first child... and 'just hopes to be as good a mom as Hillary' 'Boy parties and a prelude to an orgy': Revealed, X-Men director Bryan Singer's wild pool parties and how he met his 'rape victim' at home of Hollywood power player jailed ... (more)

When my husband and I decided to have a baby, we knew that we were entering into the unknown.

A rise in killings in a community tracks closely with a rise in the number of young children who fail a grade in elementary school, according to new research analyzing 21 years of homicide rates and school achievement data.

Joe DeProspero has two sons, a wife, and is complimentary birth control for anyone who sits near him in a restaurant.

Parents wear a lot of hats when it comes to their kids, including being the timekeeper, the money giver and the behavior police.

Al Grajeda, of the Livermore Police Department narcotics division, plays a slideshow as he talks to parents about methamphetamine, or crystal meth, during a drug awareness program hosted by Horizons Family Counseling and the LPD at Del Valle High School in Livermore, Calif., on Tuesday, April 8, 2013.

2. Attachment Parenting: Follows the theory that a secure, trusting attachment to parents during early childhood results in secure and independent adults.

Former student mother and current vice president of Feminists for Life of America, Sally Winn , moderated Boston University's 2nd Annual Pregnancy Forum Wednesday, which included a BU undergraduate parent, pro-life and pro-choice student leaders, as well as Student Health Services and Family Resources.