A childfree couple say the fertility rate is at an all time low due to the “costs of childcare and the scaremongering on social media.” Hannah Bird, 25, and her husband Charlie Camper, 25, are DINKS – dual income no kids – and are instead concentrating on traveling. The fertility…
A New Hampshire woman was sentenced Friday to 53 years to life in prison in the death of her 5-year-old son, who was beaten, starved and exposed to drugs before his 19-pound body was found buried in a Massachusetts park in 2021. “I’m so sorry Elijah that I failed you as your…
The anguished husband of the Boston nurse who strangled their three children in a fit of postpartum depression has opened up about what led up to the life-altering tragedy, insisting he did not “marry a monster” before the horrifying murders. Patrick Clancy, 33, the father of Cora, 5, Dawson, 3,…
A woman has written into a parenting advice column after she and her husband adopted her SIL’s twins. “My husband and I went into parenting thinking we’d like to have three or four kids,” she begins. “My first pregnancy had some serious complications at the end, but my doctors agreed that a second pregnancy was…
The mother of three children who vanished with their fugitive father three years ago fears her daughter may have issued a subtle cry for help when they were spotted in New Zealand bushland last week. Tom Phillips and his children — Jayda, 11, Maverick, 9, and Ember, 8 — have…
A Texas woman has confessed to drugging young girls with melatonin gummies while trafficking them into the US — just as border agents are warning that kids are being smuggled through similar means all across the southern border. Vanessa Valadez, 23, of Laredo, pleaded guilty Friday to working with family…
DEAR ABBY: I’m a single mother of two children, an 8-year-old daughter and a 9-year-old son. My daughter’s father is involved; my son’s father is not. I was diagnosed with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) when my daughter was born and given two weeks to live. My condition has markedly improved,…
Calls to the U.S. poison centers concerning children consuming energy drinks spiked to about 20% in 2023, according to newly released data from America’s Poison Centers. The steep increase in the volume of calls is even more shocking as the number has remained relatively steady in recent years. The America’s…
DEAR ABBY: My nephew-to-be has just turned 14. He has older parents (his mom was 42 when he was born) and is so socially inept that we fear for his future. His mom is more than a helicopter parent — she still orders his food for him at restaurants. My…
A woman going to Disneyworld without her children has divided and baffled the internet. Maddie, 30, who describes herself online as a “Disney and Universal travel specialist,” posted on social media that she dealt with “mum guilt” when leaving her children to go to Disneyworld without them. “Have you ever…
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