Greater Good

Videos and Podcasts: Embracing Kids’ Failure

How to embrace children’s failures so that they learn to rise to challenges. Part of a discussion series between Christine Carter and Kelly Corrigan.

Articles: Gay and Lesbian Families in California

Videos and Podcasts: How to Praise Children

Learn about the two kids of praise that are particularly powerful. Part of a discussion series between Christine Carter and Kelly Corrigan.

Videos and Podcasts: Effort, Not Achievement

Learn why the process of kids’ learning is more powerful than their achievements.  Part of a discussion series between Christine Carter and Kelly Corrigan.

Videos and Podcasts: The 21st Century Family

Panelists discuss how the definition of family has changed, and that change’s implications for our society.

Articles: Alone Together

Articles: Together Until the End

Articles: The End of Childhood?

Articles: From the Editors: Fall 2007

Articles: New Americans, New Families

At a time when people are lamenting the death of the American family, Ross D. Parke, Scott Coltrane, and Thomas Schofield discovered that many of its ideals are alive and well—and they’re being imported from Mexico.

Articles: Bringing baby home

Articles: Binuclear Family

Divorce is painful for children, but Ruth Bettelheim urges us to see what kids can gain when one family becomes two.

Articles: New Families, Few Role Models

Articles: Circles of Care

Before Alzheimer’s becomes a national crisis, new programs are trying to ease the pain and stress of caring for a loved one with the disease.

Articles: Does Barbie Need a Man?

Research shows that the children of gay and lesbian parents are normal. But Amie K. Miller’s family still faces some unique challenges.