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Don't Ask a Kid to Keep Family Secrets

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The Experimental Family

I Followed My Own Rules. It Got Weird.

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Fathers Are Psychologically Set up to Withdraw from Their Families

By Lauren Vinopal

How to Stop Being So Damn Grumpy All the Time

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Read This Before You Bring Up Divorce Some advice before you have a discussion with your partner.

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"Sometimes the Heart Wants What it Can’t Have" The novelist reminds his son that no one is perfect the way they are.

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"She Was Not Yours to Violate" A teacher contemplates how a promising young man became something else entirely.

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