Category: 13: Marriage and Family

In the past few years, the world has been experiencing a baby bust, a severe decrease in birth rates. The decline in births has further intensified following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and the health and economic crises it...

After being missing for 51 years, Melissa Highsmith has been reunited with her family. Highsmith was kidnapped from her Fort Worth, TX family in 1971 when she was 22 months old. Who was her kidnapper you ask? Well, that was...

Three very different stories were in the news recently. The first was about an Australian family of four that was stuck in the outback and had to be rescued by helicopter. The second was about the ongoing relationship between Jamal...

Across the country, nursing homes are easing Covid-19 restrictions, and allowing visitor to return. This development marks a significant turning point in the fight against the pandemic. When the virus first emerged senior care facilities raced to close their doors...

The topic of family, a group of people connected by blood, marriage, adoption or agreed upon relationship, has been in the news a lot recently. Whether it be the question of social distancing in a multigenerational home, having the "talk”...

In 2020, the state of Utah decriminalized polygamy, a legally sanctioned or illegal marital relationship in which one person has more than one husband or wife at the same time. While polygamy is still illegal on the federal level across...

For the fourth Thanksgiving in a row, Wanda Dench spent the holiday celebrating with her “grandson” Jamal Hinton.  The two accidentally became family when Wanda input the wrong cell phone number and texted Jamal by mistake. That mistake resulted in...