As parents and teachers know (but many teens don’t), parenthood is not all fun and games and cuddly babies who chortle happily in their prams.

When human relationships are good, life is good; and one important relationship for humans is that between people and the land they inhabit.

Miscommunication seems to be a much bigger problem for humans than for “lower” animal species. How can we improve our communication skills and thereby our relationships?

Ruth Nemzoff is a resident scholar at Brandeis University. Vision interviewed her about her recent book covering parent and adult-child communication.

Gina Stepp interviews communication expert Deborah Tannen about some common misperceptions that can get in the way of effective family communication.

Vision's Gina Stepp interviews Thomas J. Hoffman, whose research has included a focus on the connection between teen pregnancy and child abuse. 

Gina Stepp interviews Bill Albert of the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy about the effect of media on teenage pregnancy.

The interest in finding solutions to problems like teen pregnancy is not about assigning blame.

Studies show that strong family relationships play an important role in reducing the risk of teen pregnancy on the individual level.

Researchers agree that when we don’t work toward a state of mind of something like forgiveness, we are the ones who suffer the most harm.

Parenthood can be extremely rewarding when one is ready for it, but it is not for children.

Teen pregnancy statistics can be very misleading, but the important role that strong family relationships play in reducing them cannot be exaggerated.

Vision explores what it takes to build resilience for robust emotional health in an increasingly turbulent world.

Anxiety levels in American children have increased dramatically since the first effective scale for measuring childhood anxiety was published in 1956.

Though the idea that motherhood zaps the brain cells is fairly well-entrenched, recent studies offer some great news countering this myth.

Interaction between grandparents and grandchildren is almost nonexistent in many families. But the intergenerational gap can be bridged.

Bella DePaulo’s book about singles uses humor and sarcasm to explain, to singles as well as couples, that singles can be just as happy as their married friends.

Somewhere along the line the “doing well” aspect of building self-esteem seems to have been lost in the “feeling good” part of the message.

Of all the difficulties single mothers face, their most distressing one may involve coming to grips with the current understanding about fathers.

Research continues to suggest that the more engaged a father is in his children’s lives, the greater the physical, emotional and mental benefits for his offspring.