Petula Dvorak

What's more mandorable than Justin Trudeau cuddling pandas? Why Adam LaRoche quitting over quality time with his son, of course. What a great dad, the world mewed, when the first baseman tweeted #FamilyFirst after quitting because his bosses wanted to see less of his son at work....

The guilt. The guilt! Today's parents, especially today's mothers, are filled with guilt. It gnaws at us at pickup time, at bedtime, long after the kids have gone to sleep and we're Red-Bulled out of our minds making costumes or cupcakes or scrapbook photo albums to prove to ourselves...

Of all the adventures my lucky children had this summer — swimming in two oceans, hanging out on their bearded uncle’s commercial salmon fishing boat, endless popsicles — the biggest one, they told me, was just 495 feet away in their own Washington, D.C., neighborhood. ...

Elliot Rodger’s misogynistic ravings inspire a powerful response on Twitter.

This was the summer of irresponsible three-day benders. A few times, it was 4 a.m. and we said yes to just one more episode, even though the kids would be up in a couple of hours and we knew we'd be zombies at work the next day. But we couldn't stop. We just had to know whether "Downton...

WASHINGTON -- Absolutely not. Bert and Ernie should not get married. Fueled by the sea change in states across the nation legalizing same-sex marriage and boosted by a census report that gay households are increasingly going on the record, there is a cheeky but earnest movement...