A Bruce Springsteen song helps crack the unspoken code of father–son communication.

Pilgrim's Wilderness

A new book examines how one man, under the guise of religious faith, kept his family isolated in a world of abuse and brutality, and how another family broke boundaries to help them escape.

With his son’s freedom hanging in the balance, a father must decide whether to give the gift of forgiveness one more time.

Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity

In an encyclopedic new book, Andrew Solomon explores how parents and children forge emotional bonds with one another in the presence of sometimes vast inborn differences.

A therapist uses a Hollywood analogy to help a client learn an important lesson about distinguishing behavior from identity.

The father of an 11-year-old struggles to master the language of gruntology.

The old compact between family and society—each doing its part to protect and promote the whole—seems to be badly strained, if not flat-out broken. Thus, the semi-facetious question on our cover, “Are Parents Obsolete?” alludes to deadly serious challenges not just to parents, but to the entire institution of parenting itself.

Our growing understanding of attachment and the processes that shape the parenting brain are opening new possibilities for helping stressed-out parents who are turned off to their own children.

An understanding of the unconventional ways people demonstrate resilience is important in helping us avoid pathologizing clients and stop believing there’s only one clinically “correct” way to help them.

Exploring the complex fabric of an often poorly understood family bond that shapes us, in one way or another, throughout our lives.