One day my father, as a young man, came home from work to find the apartment cleaned out of furniture and swept clean. His wife (not my mother) was gone. Needless to say, reconciliation wasn't an option. »more»

It was the original "generation gap" and the differences and resulting strains between the Baby Boom Generation and their parents of the Greatest Generation were even more pronounced than those of previous eras. »more»

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Hundreds of thousands of families will soon see their youngest child off to college, and that means an outbreak of despondent mothers and fathers suffering from empty nest syndrome.

Or does it? »more»

Ask parents what keeps them up at night and often it's the fear of something happening to their kids as they are out in cars. Not to add fuel to their paranoia but these concerns are deserved. Traffic accidents are the leading cause of death among young people between 10 and 24 years, according to a new report published by WHO. The report, Youth and Road Safety, says that nearly 400,000 young people under the age of 25 are killed in road traffic crashes every year. Millions more are injured or disabled. »more»

Parents of teenagers haven't had to isolate the individual hormone responsible for teen angst to know that the "raging hormones" of puberty produced mood swings and stress in teenagers. Unfortunately, until now scientists haven't been too much help in understanding the cause of the pubertal angst. »more»

From Fight Aging comes this post.

The work of Leonid Gavrilov and Natalia Gavrilova on the influence of parents on their children's longevity is receiving press attention again. »more»