The long-term effects of severe abuse during childhood are terribly difficult to overcome. Some people never succeed. Despite years of his mother starving, beating, and tormenting him, Dave Pelzer did.

Tara Eisenhard grew up thinking that divorce was a good thing. Her parents’ cooperative divorce and subsequent co-parenting demonstrated that for her. Her own divorce also went well overall.

What we call “blended families” are a lot more challenging than the name implies. Stepfamilies can be healthy, happy families and good places to raise children, but building a successful stepfamily is quite different from making a first-time family.

As the Parkinson’s community continues to grow, so do the critical needs of individuals like Robert Baittie who are affected by the disease. This makes raising awareness and increasing participation in clinical trials vitally important.

Raising teenagers brings challenges for many parents. Being an adolescent comes with built-in challenges for teens.

“Home for Dinner: Mixing Food, Fun, and Conversation for a Happier Family and Healthier Kids” will be our primary topic of conversation.

For more than thirty years, distinguished psychiatrist Dr. Lance Dodes has been successfully helping people master their addictions -- alcoholism, compulsive gambling, smoking, sexual addiction, and more.

How do individuals and families survive after the suicide of a relative or close friend? How can some suicides be prevented? These will be our topics of discussion. When Carl David was only sixteen, his brother Bruce, age 22, committed suicide.