Singer Garth Brooks Parents with Discipline

On the television show, "The View," country superstar Garth Brooks was asked about raising his children and if he corrects them when they misbehave. ...

Frederick Douglass' Mother's Daily Sacrifice

Frederick Douglass grew up as a slave in Maryland in the early nineteenth century. He escaped and became one of the century's leading abolitionists, ...

Humorous Things My Mother Taught Me

My mother taught me about the food groups: "If you put one foot outside that door, you're not getting any homemade bread."

My mother taught ...

Actor Bruce Willis on Fatherhood

Actor Bruce Willis, star of the films Pulp Fiction, The Sixth Sense, and Armageddon lived life as a brash, ambitious party-goer and womanizer. He says: ...

Social Scientists on Benefits of Marriage

Marriage does a lot of social good, concluded a report titled "Why Marriage Matters: 21 Conclusions from the Social Scientists."

The study found ...

Family Held Together by Promises

What is a family but a community of promises made and promises kept no matter what? A family is not just two or more people related by blood who happen ...

Mother Brings Peace During Crisis

Cindy Holmes is a writer and pediatric nurse in Houston, Texas. She wrote an article about a mother and child she got to know at the hospital who were ...

A Father Who Won't Affirm

In We Are Still Married, Garrison Keillor writes:

The town ball club was the Lake Wobegon Schroeders, so named because the starting nine were brothers, ...

Are Fathers Necessary?

In How Now Shall We Live, Chuck Colson notes the disturbing realities that plague children who grow up without a father:

Children in single-parent families ...

Stay Married for Kids' Sake

Children don't need their parents to like each other. They don't even need them to be especially civil. They need them to stay together, for better ...