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And I didn't want another puppy. The first one died, horribly, in a mess of blood and vomit, the victim of parvovirus, a harsh environment with virtually no veterinary care, and my ignorance.

Union J singer J.J. Hamblett's bandmates say he uses parenthood to get out of things he doesn't want to do.

The writer John Shea tells the story of Margaret, who found a bag of pot shoved in the back of her 14-year-old son’s sock drawer.

Debra Harrell was arrested recently after the McDonald's employee let her daughter spend the day playing in a nearby park while she worked her shift.

Daisy Wyatt oversees Arts + Entertainment for The Independent website. She describes herself as somewhere between The Hits and Radio 4. Note: We do not store your email address but your IP address will be logged to prevent abuse of this feature.

The Arizona mom arrested after leaving her kids in a hot car while she went on a job interview said she's "extremely grateful" for a second chance, a week after reaching a deal with prosecutors that would drop criminal charges against her.

Words have the power to wound or lift our hearts. This isn't new news. Of course, the challenge is when you are small and new to the world - the words you hear help shape your self-esteem and ultimately, worldview.

Sarah McLachlan, the Grammy Award winning singer and songwriter whose ballads helped so many of us through heartache, breakups and loss, was barely out of her teenage years when her first album was released back in 1988.

Film Office Director Nick Maniatis announced Thursday that the feature "Captain Fantastic" will begin principal photography in Albuquerque, Las Cruces and Mesilla next month.

Among those peeves listed in this modern day Necronomicon ? Gravity, sound, the existence of shoes and the proliferation of dust-in the cultural imagination once mostly composed of human skin, much like the pages of this so-called "manual"-in the home.

DEAR ABBY: When my friend "Fran" and I get together with our kids, they often play games on her cellphone until the battery dies.

Leaving the television on can be detrimental to children's learning and development, according to a new study.

This week, a group of Sailor Moon fans recreated an entire episode of the anime classic, shot for shot.

"Such love has no fear, because perfect love expels all fear. If we are afraid, it is for fear of punishment, and this shows that we have not fully experienced his perfect love" .

Is it child abuse if someone leaves a toddler in a car to run into a store? That's a question the New Jersey Supreme Court is going to take on.

Human parents aren't enough...now we need robots to raise our kids. When public outrage drives the legal community there are dangers to be found.

It's no secret that parenting is difficult. As a combat veteran, I've even sometimes wondered which is harder; war or raising children? So is managing a team just as hard? Granted, children need more attention and supervision than adults , but the similarities between managing and parenting are interesting.

After my other-half Rob read last week's blog he told me that any expectant mother reading it would probably be petrified and that it all sounded a bit negative.

Jimmy Kimmel became a dad again earlier in July, and this time, he decided to skip the baby books and go to a more obvious source for parenting advice: A fellow child.

On Monday night, Jimmy Kimmel returned to late-night television after a two-week hiatus surrounding the birth of his daughter Jane.