Families come in all forms. We’re just trying to live our lives and the question you might have considered innocent can sting us and our children. My two youngest kids are adopted from China, which makes them…well, Chinese. My husband and I are Caucasian, so you get a little more at-a-glance insight into our family […]
A new national study reveals that more and more women are interested in parenting outside of the traditional family model. At 31, with a successful career as an author and artist, Lauren Brim felt her life was near perfect. “I was working for myself and making art,” she told Washington Post reporter Britany Robinson. “I had great […]
Ultimately, the number one thing that we need to tackle in the United States in order to help children succeed is not declining marriage rates, it’s poverty. I grew up in a home with married parents who stayed that way until my mom’s death. Despite this family model, when I found myself in a serious relationship […]
Children often have no say in who comes into their life, but are expected to acquiesce to new structures and automatically give equal respect to the new addition to the household; a stranger. My mother and stepmother couldn’t be less alike. My mother is practical, pragmatic, and sturdy. She needed to be. She had two […]
How can we shape the evolution of families so that they best serve the next generation? Over the weekend, an article in the Washington Post confirmed what many of us have known for a very long time: that marriage is either dead or in critical condition with little hope of long-term survival. At the very least, […]
