Relationships

The 2011 Penn State abuse scandal left parents asking how predators hide inside trusted institutions — and what to tell their children.

Parental expectations are among the strongest predictors of student achievement — but pressure for perfection backfires.

From a Brooklyn rooftop to a viral plane ride, strangers' breakups keep becoming Twitter content. Where's the line between sharing and voyeurism?

Former Penn State coach Jerry Sandusky was arrested on child sex-abuse charges in 2011; he was convicted on 45 counts and sentenced to 30-60 years in 2012.

Leicester's Dalwara Singh received a 12-month suspended sentence for secretly lacing his wife's food with steroids — until his teenage daughter caught him.

Psychology studies link a taste for sweet foods with agreeableness and helpfulness — embodied cognition ties the sensation of sweetness to sweet behavior.

A 2011 case of a young Indian IT couple who died by suicide, leaving a note of 'satisfaction' — and the uncomfortable mental-health conversation it started.

A 2011 UK survey found four in ten working mothers had sent a sick child to school, unable to take time off — though a vitamin brand commissioned the poll.

In Madison, Wisconsin, a woman and her son were charged after her sister's body lay hidden in their home for three months — while they went out for pizza.

Gottman's 'Four Horsemen' — contempt, criticism, defensiveness, stonewalling — predict divorce. Why marriages fail, and what actually prevents it.

Why do stories of partners dating for years without knowing a basic truth fascinate us — and what do they reveal about how love actually works?

Stanford law professor Ralph Richard Banks' provocative 2011 book on the African American marriage decline — and his controversial advice: 'marry out.'

Bill Labram and Peggy Fryer fell in love in 1947 and were split by her father. Sixty-three years later, both 80, they finally married.

Attachment research shows the mother-son bond shapes boys' emotional intelligence and outcomes — and the 'separate to become a man' narrative is more

A Miami-Dade teacher was dismissed after his past in adult entertainment surfaced. Where does a legal past end and fitness to teach begin?

A survey claimed women spend five hours a day gossiping. The methodology collapses under scrutiny — and the stereotype it feeds has a long history.

Shubhli Bhalla on judging people by their souls instead of their dress size — a meditation on beauty, spirit, and what actually lasts.

A 2011 University of Tennessee study found marriages happier when the wife's BMI was lower than the husband's. But the headline was better than the truth.

A 2011 Wall Street Journal essay on the 'divorce generation' asked a hard question: when parents pour everything into the kids, who tends the marriage?

Before settling down, most women collect a small education in men: the best friend, the bad boy, the ex, the fling, and finally the keeper.