My son and her youngest are now 7 years old. Every Friday, we have movie night together with their two boys—my son’s best ...

The great wealth transfer? More like the great stuff transfer. An expert explains how to help your parents downsize without burning bridges.

Adult children are moving back in for a host of unsurprising reasons. “Adulthood has gotten more expensive, more complicated ...

Over the next two decades, Americans are projected to inherit $105 trillion in assets, part of what wealth advisors have dubbed The Great Wealth Transfer. For many, the generational shift is well ...

Parents of adults know the drill: they want to respect boundaries, but some comments from their grown kids sting in a way that feels flat-out ungrateful. Certain phrases pop up so often in family ...

Many parents reach a point where they realize the “help” they’ve been giving their adult child is no longer helping. Bills get paid, loans co-signed, deadlines extended, and pep talks offered—yet ...

While a balance between parental warmth, strictness, and expectations all play a role in your adult children’s well-being, according to a study published in the International Journal of Behavioral ...

For many parents, the day that their child leaves home to start a life of their own is bittersweet. Equally bittersweet, then, is the day that child moves back in. For decades, adult children tended ...

In trying to help grown children, parents can hurt their own retirement security. Here’s how to stop the flow of money. By Martha C. White It starts innocently enough: a check to cover the rent after ...

There are many ways to measure a child care program's quality. Michigan's Great Start to Quality system is designed to navigate this question.

When you dedicate your life to raising your children, you expect to enjoy a close relationship as they get older. That's one of the reasons it's so painful when they grow up and cut you out of their ...

It's not easy to admit that you weren't the greatest parent. Jane Fonda, 87, lamented her parenting in a recent NPR interview. She didn't get into specifics, but she did tell "Fresh Air" host Tonya ...