A story in the Style section explores how new parents are rethinking consumerism and forgoing luxury purchases.
Why are women in particular transfixed by stories of betrayed political wives? Do the affairs of the powerful have anything to do with us?
In our quest for efficiency, do some of us take things too far? In our efforts not to shortchange our children, are some of us unnecessarily shortchanging our careers?
A reporter is seeking help for a story about choosing day camp over sleepaway camp this summer.
Diana Oliva Cave and Damien Cave, both Times journalists, discuss how their ideas of mortality changed after becoming parents.
An update on pulling a child out of summer camp and another mother seeking advice, this time about music lessons.
A new mother weighs the odds of trying to persuade an employer to give her part-time hours.
A portrait photographer, a fighter pilot known as "Vapor" and their efforts to document a pregnancy and birth.
In a guest blog, Jenny Staff Johnson writes about her family's trip to China to bring home an adopted girl with special needs.
How do you decide who to name as a legal guardian for your children?