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A Florida mother faces charges of child neglect for allowing her 7-year-old son to walk alone to a neighborhood park to play, authorities said on Wednesday.

First of all, being a parent is not easy, nor is any parent perfect and I would like to say upfront before listing bad parenting habits to break that I am guilty at some point in my parenting career of displaying each and every one of these bad parenting habits.

As someone who serves in roles of the breadwinner and full-time mom, there are fewer gender stereotypes that occur in my home than in the society at large.

Craig and Emma Hammond stepped in to look after little Nathan when it became clear his parents could not do so.

When their 3-year-old daughter, Simone, had her first sleepover at her grandmother's house, her nervous parents checked up on her via video hookup before bedtime.

Classes for people interested in becoming foster parents have been scheduled through November, including a segment that begins at 6 p.m. Tuesday.

Raising teens can be a challenge, and a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor and graduate student are recruiting participants for a study exploring the role of wisdom in parenting and raising teens.

Relentless missile attacks on Israel exceeded 2,600 in the first 20 days of the Hamas/Israeli war.

Josh Michtom is a Connecticut public defender who represents indigent parents and children.

Actress Elizabeth Banks has never been busier, starring in six movies this year and shooting Pitch Perfect 2 and the final installment of The Hunger Games .

Nicole Richie and Joel Madden don't want to follow the example of their own parents, who divorced when they were young so have vowed to always be a ''team''.

At the end of a long day of work, if you are anything like me, you are looking for the path of least resistance when you walk through the front door.

I absolutely love it when people begin to realize that the problems they're having with a child are of their own making; when they begin to realize, in other words, that the child is not the problem - they are! All this time , they've been trying to correct the wrong person - the child - getting nowhere and becoming nothing but frustrated in the ... (more)

You know the stereotypes - spoiled, indulged, lonely, anti-social, selfish. That's what many people believe about only children.

The mother and the Marine both took a deep breath of the sea air, coming in off the Atlantic.

In a 2-1 decision, the 4th U.S. Court of Appeals concluded Virginia's marriage restrictions violated constitutional guarantees of equal protection.

In a 2-1 decision, the 4th U.S. Court of Appeals concluded Virginia's marriage restrictions violated constitutional guarantees of equal protection.

People were milling on the main thoroughfare, bikes zig-zagging through traffic, cafA©s and pubs spilling onto the sidewalk, patrons sipping their way through a lazy Friday afternoon.

Plenty of working parents can relate to the dilemma Debra Harrell faced when her 9-year-old daughter asked to play unsupervised in a park this summer.

The First International Conference on Shared Parenting has just concluded, a conference organized by the International Council on Shared Parenting , the first international interdisciplinary organization of divorce scholars and family practitioners interested in issues related to co-parenting after divorce.