Tag: Family
How parents can support a child who comes out as trans...
Em Matsuno, Palo Alto University
Young transgender, or trans, people face high rates of anxiety, depression and suicide. These...
3 ways companies could offer more father-friendly policies that will help...
Ivona Hideg, York University, Canada and Manuela Priesemuth, Villanova University
If you want to help women achieve gender equality...
Here’s why Christmas movies are so appealing this holiday season
S. Brent Rodriguez-Plate, Hamilton College
With the pandemic limiting travel over the holiday season, many Americans will be settling in front of the television to...
Kids want to learn more about mental illness and how to...
Joanne Riebschleger, Michigan State University and Jennifer Tanis, Michigan State University
One in five teens has a parent with a mental illness such as anxiety...
How to host a safe holiday meal during coronavirus – an...
Melissa Hawkins, American University
Like many people in this unusual year, I am adjusting my family’s holiday plans so that we can all be safe...
What Day of the Dead tells us about the Aztec philosophy...
Lynn Sebastian Purcell, State University of New York College at Cortland
Growing up in the United States, I remember on Halloween my mother used...
The US birth rate keeps declining: 4 questions answered
Marie Menke, University of Pittsburgh
Over the last few decades, birth rates have decreased across the globe.
The United States is no exception. Aside from a...
‘The Farewell’ highlights tough conversations families face when confronted with death
Nick Iannarino, University of Michigan
To my 87-year-old grandmother, not many subjects are taboo.
She was treated for colorectal cancer in 1996, and she still laughs...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
