Perhaps you’ve heard: Americans are having fewer children, on average, than they used to, and that has some people concerned. In the future, the elderly could outnumber the young, leaving not enough ...

A college student wonders if she’s wrong for wanting her atheist boyfriend to join her religious family for the holidays ...

When I was growing up, holidays and celebrations were always happily jam-packed with my big Italian family: kids running around, adults telling stories and laughing, and everyone gobbling up way too ...

No matter how much time has lapsed, or how distant relatives have become, family reintroduces each of us to our former selves. Intricately and inextricably, family members, especially siblings — no ...

Dear Eric: I have a first cousin “Karen” who lives in Florida. I live in Connecticut. We are close in age, but I don’t have a close relationship with that side of my family in general. My aunts and ...

No contact with a family member means cutting off the relationship, neither offering nor allowing any communication or interaction whatsoever. It is a decisive step taken to end physical, ...