Last year, famous names in pro sports like Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, and Marion Jones became associated with words like compromise, cheating, hypocrisy and shame. Josh Hamilton’s story is different. He hit 28 home runs in the Home Run Derby after being banned from baseball because of his addiction to crack cocaine. Does every fallen sports hero deserve a second chance?... Read full article

Moms pack many things, but does a responsible mom also pack a gun? The question was recently raised on the website BabyCenter, where a mom blogger described the terrifying experience of a mother who was attacked. Many moms, from police officers to celebrities, are confessing to carrying a weapon and having the willingness to shoot and kill if necessary.... Read full article

Cold air is a hot topic, as shops and stores across the country blast arctic air out their front doors, wide open, non stop. If you embrace the door-busting chill, are you a cool customer or an unwitting accomplice to an irresponsible environmental crime? A New York city councilwoman recently introduced legislation to stop the practice, but should wasting energy be illegal?... Read full article

Parents are frequently encouraged to share more activities with their kids. But should drinking alcohol together be one of them? Is it time for parents to take a different approach towards kids and alcohol? Time Magazine reporter John Cloud says it’s a “good way to teach responsible drinking behavior”.... Read full article

If you find it difficult sometimes to define responsibility, watch Growing Up and see four extraordinary young people go beyond definitions to live the word in truly inspiring ways.... Read full article

If you do the right thing, should you expect to be rewarded? Yes, say three men in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The men—all city-employed water department workers—were on the job when they discovered an abandoned safe at the side of a road. The safe had been stolen by robbers who broke through the wall of a local bank during a winter ice storm.... Read full article

Kit Kittredge: An American Girl is the first feature film based on the popular doll and book series produced by the Pleasant Company. Each of their dolls is a girl from a different period of American history from Colonial days to the 1970’s, and each character has books about issues and challenges specific to their eras…... Read full article

There’s an age when society expects people to be responsible—usually about 21. But is there also an age when people are no longer expected to be responsible? How about 73? That’s the age a California widower named Robert Pyle was when he made a series of decisions that triggered a financial freefall, resulting in the loss of his $650,000 home and $500,000 life savings.... Read full article

Motherhood—achieving it and surviving it—is a perennially popular topic of blog discussions. But rarely does one comment continue to draw responses years after first being posted, like the following one has from a woman who wanted to undergo IVF fertility treatments as a matter of convenience.... Read full article