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Stop Judging People Who Choose Not to Have Kids

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My Drug Addiction Involved My Family. My Recovery Should, Too.

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The Family Tradition That Makes My Holiday Complete, According to 14 Dads As a parent, it's your job to construct — and sustain — family traditions. Here, 14 dads, from Super Bowl-winning coaches to regular Joes, discuss the traditions they've started over the years.

9 Signs That Your Kids Are Harming Your Marriage And what to do about it.

The Yearly Duck Hunts That Keep My Family and I Connected Trekking through the marsh with my Labrador retrievers and my 82-year-old dad gets me outside. That's what really matters.

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The Specific Joy of Having Lots of Kids I'm a dad to seven kids. It wasn't the plan, but it wasn't not the plan either.

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For Me, Work Life Balance Meant Working Less I missed my daughter standing up. That's when I knew I had to make a big change.

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America’s Other Family Separation Crisis Continues Media and politicians are focusing on immigrant kids separated from parents, but black kids have been facing a similar crisis for decades thanks to incarceration.

5 Ways to Be More Present With Your Family When Your Mind Is Somewhere Else A few tricks to bring you back into the moment.

11 Funny Board Games For Potty Humor, Bad Puns, And Dad Jokes Your bad sense of humor will come in handy with these funny board games.

Glenn Beck on Fatherhood, Moderation, And Admitting You're Wrong The founder of TheBlaze opens up about his difficult childhood and the challenging balance between politics and entertainment.

Why I Moved My Family of Five Into an RV Full Time RV life is small. But the world we get to see is very big.

Stop Forcing Your Kid to Eat Dinner time should be a time of fun for the family, not a struggle to the death that leaves everyone crying in their mashed potatoes.

Father & Child Relationships

The Weird Joy of a Messy House For a long time, my wife and I worked tirelessly to keep our house spotless. Then, we calmed down and realized the mess of a home is merely proof of life.

Pete Oswald is the Greatest, Happiest Children’s Illustrator You’ve Never Heard Of "I still pinch myself. I'm getting to do something that I love and that I started doing as a child and I think that's really special and I'm very fortunate."

I Put in as Many Hours as I Can to Give My Daughter a Christmas She’ll Remember "If I had to work outside in this weather, I wouldn't care, because this is worth it. My daughter is having the Christmases that I remember. She's as excited as I remember being."

I Am Happily Plunging My Family Into Poverty Because of Honeycrisp Apples Honeycrisp apples are absolutely, hopelessly, and unchangeably our most luxurious grocery-based decision; to afford them I will gladly use shampoo as soap.

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