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Teen pregnancy statistics can be very misleading, but the important role that strong family relationships play in reducing them cannot be exaggerated.

People think forgiving is forgetting everything. From my personal perspective, it’s not.

Vision explores what it takes to build resilience for robust emotional health in an increasingly turbulent world.

Anxiety levels in American children have increased dramatically since the first effective scale for measuring childhood anxiety was published in 1956.

Though the idea that motherhood zaps the brain cells is fairly well-entrenched, recent studies offer some great news countering this myth.

Is leadership all about the leader? Or are effective leaders those who are most in tune with their followers? Vision interviews two authors on “The New Psychology of Leadership.”

Interaction between grandparents and grandchildren is almost nonexistent in many families. But the intergenerational gap can be bridged.

Are boys in trouble? It would seem so if we are to believe all the headlines thrown our way over the past 10 years.

Bella DePaulo’s book about singles uses humor and sarcasm to explain, to singles as well as couples, that singles can be just as happy as their married friends.

Somewhere along the line the “doing well” aspect of building self-esteem seems to have been lost in the “feeling good” part of the message.

Are fathers necessary? Based on the statistics, loving, engaged and committed fathers are perhaps more important than ever before.

Of all the difficulties single mothers face, their most distressing one may involve coming to grips with the current understanding about fathers.

Research continues to suggest that the more engaged a father is in his children’s lives, the greater the physical, emotional and mental benefits for his offspring.

Is the generation gap inevitable? Or can grandparents and grandchildren reclaim strong family relationships?

It’s not uncommon to find, in modern literature, the call for a new Golden Rule. But do we need a new rule, or is the one we already have adequate?

Whatever objectives parents have for their children, bookstore shelves bulge with advice to help parents achieve them. But which do we choose?

Infants need caretakers who demonstrate that they love them. Too many children suffer the consequences of complete neglect or dysfunctional family relationships.

Society admits that a father is important to a boy’s well-being, but how important are fathers to the well-being of their daughters?

Parents provide the earliest influence on children. By modeling leadership in their own lives, they profoundly affect the kind of leaders their children become.

Most parents desperately want the best for their children, but what is “the best”?