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Retail Genetic Testing

What if you could learn whether your baby is at risk to one day develop a painful or incurable disease? Should you send off a sample of saliva and a check for $399 to find out?

Web Sharing

Check out our handy chart, which will show you the highs (and lows) of four of the most popular sites.

Labor of Love

Scott and her husband had just joined the selfless ranks of planned surrogacy.

Urgency vs. Emergency

Where do you go when your child is hurt or sick? Decoding the often confusing choices of urgent care, emergency care and hospital-run ERs.

Senior Pen Pals

Many senior living communities accept letters and even work with students to establish pen pal connections.

Green With Envy

MOM Clean Conscious Keep your face fresh with W3LL PEOPLE, a toxin-free cosmetic line (created in Austin) with an organic…

The Blog Squad

JOSLYN TAYLOR the ambassador simplelovely.blogspot.com raisingfoodies.blogspot.com Who She Is: A mom who just wanted a little “space” of her own,…

Color Me Green

Walk into any home inhabited by kids, and there’s usually one common item strewn across the house: crayons. It’s a…

Banking on the Future

Among parents surveyed who had children 5 or older, only 26 percent felt well prepared to teach their kids about basic personal finances.

Hypnotize Me

I turned to Joanna Rodriquez, a certified hypnotherapist and life coach, to help me break 31 years of bad habits.

Like Bully, Like Kid

No longer limited to pushes on the playground, bullying is now often a 24/7 ordeal, thanks to the surge in social media and the popularity (and anonymity) of mass texting.