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Actress Elizabeth Banks has gone and pissed off the one portion of the population you never want to make angry: moms. She won't like them when they're angry. The fire was ignited in an interview with PEOPLE, where Banks discussed what it was like to be a mother. Innocuous enough stuff, until she brought up how having more than one kid is much more difficult and moms of only children just aren't &q

We've all heard the stories about stressed-out parents drugging their unruly toddlers with a dose of Benadryl so that they can get some shut-eye, but this is certainly a new twist. On December 28, a 16 year-old girl and her 15-year-old friend from Northern California decided to buy her parents two milkshakes from a local fast-food joint and crush prescription sleeping pills in them so that they ca

My oldest is only 10 but she's already asking for her first iPhone! I'm reluctant to give it to her just yet but when the time comes I might copy these rules that this mom made up for her teenager. Although, this list sounds suspiciously aimed at us adults or at least an attempt to shape her son into a functional one!

One busy mom is about to get a lot busier, as she has just given birth to quintuplets, making her brood of 16 children one of the largest families in the Australian state of Victoria. Earlier today, the 48-year-old mother of 12, who has apparently mistaken her body for a clown car, welcomed five new additions to her family to the tune of two boys and three girls (one of which, sadly, died just bef

Amusement park rides are fun for all ages. Sometimes.

Many people have adopted a vegan lifestyle as a healthy alternative to eating meat. But is veganism, a strict diet which eliminates all animal proteins, including milk, cheese, eggs, meat and fish, healthy for growing children?

High school proms are getting mighty expensive — and we’re not just talking triple digits, either.

While the United States takes measures such as abstinence initiatives, sexual education and sometimes criticizing Bristol Palin as a scare tactic to prevent teenage pregnancy, some schools in the UK are taking a much more direct route. A report from the British National Health Service announced that many girls were given long-term contraceptives at school.

Most parents know about the importance of car seats for infants and toddlers, but booster seats for older kids are often required by law, too — yet a new survey finds lots of carpooling moms and dads use them inconsistently at best.

People buying a house who can’t get a loan the traditional way are sometimes tapping a less conventional source: their parents.

It’s usually everyone else’s kids who are spoiled (never our own), but a new Parents.com survey reveals that moms and dads are admitting they have a problem when it comes to spoiling their kids during the holidays.

While many college grads are only too happy to fly their parents’ nest and get a place of their own, the dip in the economy has meant some can’t — or won’t — until they feel more financially able to do so comfortably. What does this mean for the economy? Unfortunately, nothing good.