Hurt people hurt people. Just because that phrase has become a mantra of therapeutic babble doesn’t mean it’s not true. A ...

I sometimes joke that I was raised on benign neglect though at the time, we just called it childhood. In the late ‘80s and early '90s, I was what many would call a latchkey kid. I remember walking the ...

Permissive parenting can be emotionally neglectful and harmful. But being raised by some types of permissive parents could actually seem like a lot of fun. With few rules strictly enforced and ...

NBC News chief consumer investigative correspondent Vicky Nguyen writes about the lessons she learned from her parents in her new memoir, "Boat Baby." Nguyen arrived in the U.S. as an infant with her ...

Mental health professionals who work exclusively with adults commonly half-joke that the choice not to work with children and adolescents was based less on a desire to avoid working with kids ...