Researchers have been looking at how children from single-parent and two-parent families fare in life. So what did they find? Family life is more richly varied than ever before. A growing ...

If you’d like to help your child pay for college, a federal Parent PLUS Loan could be a useful financing option. The Department of Education offers Parent PLUS Loans to parents of dependent ...

For parents, it can sometimes seem like their affectionate, adoring child has become a different, distant person and that their teen’s friends have become more important to them than their family.

Returning to school can be an anxious time for children and also their parents. Here's some expert advice to help you with your child's return to school. Activities, advice and personal stories ...

At the funeral, the late 23-year-old’s parents delivered eulogies. Jon Polin, Hersh Goldberg-Polin’s father, donned a navy blue shirt, and his mother and two siblings wore white shirts ...

American parents need a bailout. Suffering from stress, money woes and loneliness more than their childless peers, nearly half of parents can barely function, according to a new report from ...

Even as an adult, the death of a parent is devastating. “You’re often losing someone who loved you unconditionally and gave you a sense of safety and stability,” says Holly Schiff ...

Parents and caregivers are working more hours and spending more time taking care of their children than parents did in the past — all while juggling sign-ups for extracurricular activities ...

There’s a moment, toward the end of a parent’s trip to drop their child off at college, when it feels like the world is changing. Many describe the joy and loss that mingle in those five ...

As many kids head back to school this year to more strict cellphone bans, some of the biggest pushback against removing smartphones from classrooms comes from parents. “What if there’s a ...

The Parent PLUS loan is a type of Direct PLUS loan that allows parents to take out a federal loan to pay for their undergraduate student's educational costs. Parent PLUS loans have a fixed ...