When parents act irresponsibly, should they get a time-out? A group of soccer parents in Bethesda, Maryland was recently punished for “unsportsmanlike” conduct on the sidelines of a match.... Read full article

Going viral after going ballistic isn’t on most mom’s to-do lists , but the story of the fed-up New York lawyer/mother who kicked her bickering daughters out of the car spread faster than flu. Were her actions irresponsible, irresistible, or something else?... Read full article

If your daughter steals your ATM card or your son drives drunk, should you— would you—call the cops on them? Where does parental responsibility end and police intervention begin?... Read full article

Monitoring, blocking, filtering, tracking. Parenting these days includes an arsenal of tools to find out what kids are up to. But should it include renting drug-sniffing dogs to prowl through their bedrooms?... Read full article

One single mother. 8 newborn octuplets. 14 total offspring. 15 minutes of fame. Thousands of people have expressed outrage at Nadya Suleman, America’s most well-known mother. But should the usually private matter of reproduction be the subject of such public debate?... Read full article

There’s been an abundance of odd headlines lately, fading before their 15 minutes, but one refuses to go away: Indian woman, 70, gives birth to first child after IVF treatment. Part oddity, part odyssey, the story of septuagenarian first-time mother Rajo Devi has reverberated around the world.... Read full article

Scientists mapped the human genome to help the human race. Now parents can map Johnny’s genome to help him win his own race—or football and soccer games—by searching for a gene that supposedly predicts exceptional abilities in sports. Mouth swab to identify gene: $149. Identification of future sports-great while still in diapers: priceless?... Read full article

Three year old Adolph Hitler Campbell’s birthday was December 14. When his parents—who gave the child his legal name—tried to order a birthday cake from a nearby ShopRite grocery store, employees there refused to write “Adolph Hitler” on the frosting. Did the employees do the right thing?... Read full article

Every state in America has a so-called “safe haven” law, under which a troubled parent can safely surrender a newborn baby, usually at a hospital or fire station, no questions asked. But Nebraska’s safe haven law is different. Intended to protect only infants, it was written with the word “child” left undefined and without an age limit, opening a gaping legal loophole for an unprecedented human bailout.... Read full article

Should a bad mother be prohibited from having more children? A 20-year-old Texas mother admitted that she failed to protect her 19-month-old daughter from being beaten by her father. A judge sentenced her to 10 years probation, with the unusual condition that she not conceive or bear any more children during that time. Should the government decide who can be a mother?... Read full article