Dear Caught: You and your daughter don’t owe anyone an explanation for your family’s heritage or her choices. If someone asks ...

After my daughter passed, my son-in-law asked me to move in to help. I was in a position to do so, and it went OK the first ...

We asked our 19-year-old college daughter, "Lulu," to dog-sit and housesit sit several months ago. She knew our rule of no ...

I miss her terribly, but I also don’t want to keep reopening the wound. How do I respect her boundaries without giving up ...

Dear Grieving: Few pains cut as deeply as being shut out by your own child. You are mourning not only the loss of a relationship but the silence, the not knowing and the ache of missing milestones in ...

In today's Dear Annie column, Annie Lane hears from a reader who feels her daughter has grown more distant since she got married.

Every so often, we receive a letter that stops us cold. Not because it’s dramatic for the sake of drama—but because it’s real ...

Reinstating Rose, at least in a narrow, short-term view, comes at little cost. The Hall of Fame is the true prize for Rose’s supporters.

I’m struggling with how to move forward after my adult daughter, “Rachel,” cut me off two years ago. We used to be close. I raised her as a single mom after her father left, and we leaned on each ...