As you go through your life expanding your family while reaching personal and professional goals, you sometimes have to shift your responsibilities. When your parents begin aging, you will have to start thinking about taking care of the same people who raised you. Eventually, taking them grocery shopping and accompanying them to doctors’ appointments might read more »

A successful marriage needs a lot of things. You need a loving couple that is completely devoted to each other, a shared vision of the future, and plenty of good communication skills. As great as marriage can be for the right people, it can also be thrown off track by a lot of issues too. read more »

Sadly, child abuse allegations occur all too often. Specifically in highly contentious child custody cases, tempers could rise swiftly. Everyone involved would definitely feel the stress. In select cases, one parent might think that claiming that the other parent is abusing their child will increase their chances of getting custody of the child. But while read more »

There has been a lot of buzz in the blogosphere lately about the toll that “emotional labor” takes on women — specifically, on women who are wives and mothers. Not only do these women shoulder their fair share of the actual household labor, like cooking, cleaning, chauffeuring kids to and fro, and otherwise making sure read more »