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The Abu Ghraib guard who thought he loved me

Justine Sharrock
The notorious prison scarred him. His wife left him. But I did something no one else had: I listened

TV’s best new taboo-busting comedy

Heather Havrilesky
FX presents Louis C.K.'s "Louie," a portrait of the world's most pessimistic comedian as a middle-aged man

“Grown Ups”: It’s time to kill the midlife dude flick

Andrew O'Hehir
Adam Sandler and Chris Rock tackle adulthood -- and old, ugly chicks! -- in the gruesomely unfunny "Grown Ups"

The libertarian case against good parenting

Andrew Leonard
Our choices don't influence how our kids turn out, says economist Bryan Caplan. Which means we should have more?

Jaycee Dugard’s new “terror”: Her father

Mary Elizabeth Williams
The abduction and abuse survivor faces yet another adversary: The biological dad she never knew

A single dad spills his secrets

Trey Ellis
As my daughter turns 10, I wonder how to help her grow up -- and shield her from my racy memoir

Coconut and Pi

Nicole Woodard
When you have screaming children to calm down, get freezing

The reliable hysteria of Little Girls Gone Wild

Ada Calhoun
NYT mag piles on the "Single Ladies" dancers. Can we stop yelling at young women to put their clothes back on?

“On the Outskirts of Normal”: White mom, black daughter in small-town Texas

Amy Benfer
National Book Award nominee Debra Monroe writes about the complications, and gifts, of transracial adoption

Should a teen sail solo around the world?

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Abby Sunderland's quest kicks up an age-old parenting dilemma between keeping kids safe and letting them soar

“Drinking toddler” joins Phillies hall of shame

Mary Elizabeth Williams
Vomiting teens! Tasered college kids! We salute the greatest fans in baseball

Do lesbians have healthier kids?

Tracy Clark-Flory
They raise children with fewer behavior problems and higher self-confidence, but it isn't clear why

Pot ruined my son’s life

Cary Tennis
If you want to keep your kids, don't let the authorities know you smoke

“Splice”: Adrien Brody and Sarah Polley make a monster

Andrew O'Hehir
Hipster power-scientists create a super-baby in this twisted, erotic parenting fable

Why your kids act the way they do

Thomas Rogers
A new book uses evolutionary biology to explain the mysteries of growing up -- and the obnoxiousness of teens

A man’s right to choose an abortion

Mary Elizabeth Williams
How much say should a man have in the choice to become a parent?

Inside the gay baby boom

Thomas Rogers
The author of a new memoir talks about the odd dynamics of lesbian motherhood and how it's changing our culture

The war on children’s playgrounds

Lenore Skenazy
By trying to make kids' spaces safe and risk-free, are we taking all the fun out of growing up?

The secret of “Babies'” success

Matt Zoller Seitz
Adults can't get enough of this documentary. And for once, it has nothing to do with Michael Moore gimmicks

How Mom and I outran the tornado

Kate Moses
On a tumultuous cross-country road trip to a new life, I saw how powerful my mother was -- and how vulnerable

Lindsay Lohan’s slow meltdown: It’s all about Dad

Mary Elizabeth Williams
The actress's painful public drama is a lesson in how hard it can be to grow up without a good man in your life

Bullock is divorcing James, adopting baby

Frazier Moore
Bullock says she's "sad and scared" over split, excited about her newborn son, Louis

Twitter tiff: Courtney Love vs. Billy Corgan

Judy Berman
The ex-lovers and former collaborators are at war again. But you'll never guess who's being classy about it

The absurd call for a “mom on the Supreme Court”

Kate Harding
Appointing another mother to the Supreme Court won't change the fact that "having it all" is hard as hell
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