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...featured on Katie Couric’s Sept. 5 “CBS Evening News” debut as the first woman solo anchor of a major network evening newscast. While the photographs prove that Baby Suri is indeed alive and beautiful, the new question is which parent does she most resemble, if the Asian-looking baby is even their child at all. Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban’s June 25 wedding only spurred questions as to when Suri’s parents will actually tie the knot. Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt, born to Angelina Jolie and Brad...
...from that idea. Professor Toni Falbo of the University of Texas has researched the subject for 30 years and, she says, found no disadvantages to children without siblings. That's because what counts is not a traditional family structure but the opportunity to form relationships with adults and contemporaries. "Parent and peer contact can compensate for the lack of siblings," says Falbo. Parents of only children are ingenious in developing family structures to provide that contact. A child's best friend can often be co-opted as an honorary sibling; or the extended family can be plundered for playmates...
...students aren’t concerned about the crawling, the itching, or the blood-letting, then it is the bugs’ fortitude for travel that should give them pause. Nothing riles a parent more than when college-age offspring bring unwanted guests home in their suitcases...
...thankfully, both of my parents are still alive. But I think when people really regret or miss things that they didn't say to someone, it's usually to a parent. For some reason, we just think they're going to be around, and then they're gone. So this book focuses on a son who loses his mother. I want [my mother] to see this while she's here. I realized that there aren't that many books that focus on the mother-son relationship. Maybe men don't feel comfortable writing about mothers. They feel...
Hero? I was feeling anything but valiant. Mangled. Pitiful. Disoriented. Scared. I was anxious about my ability to work again with one hand and to parent my children, who lived with me half-time in Washington. My son Skyler was 11 years old, the same age I had been when my father, a workaholic community newspaper publisher, dropped dead of a heart attack. Olivia was 8, roughly as old as my sister had been. I couldn't bear to think I might let such wrenching family history repeat itself...