Almost every family has periodic fights over the TV remote or who gets to sit shotgun on the way to the grocery store.

If you’re like most parents, you want the best for your kids. You want them to succeed in school, have healthy friendships, ...

You don’t just wake up one day bad at love. That stuff is wired in early—through the fights you overheard, the apologies you never got, the emotional labor you carried before you even hit puberty.

Dysfunctional parenting threatens the bonds between parents and children but it can also damage the bonds between siblings. In dysfunctional households, children may have to compete with each other ...

In the land of movies and TV shows, dysfunctional families are often in the spotlight where their drama is so exaggerated, that it’s impossible not to notice. However, fictional storylines don’t ...

From constantly apologizing for things beyond your control to feeling physically uncomfortable when someone might be ...

Source: Source: Office of National Statistics UK; open government licensing It seems like a lot more adults in the United States and the United Kingdom are living with their parents than ever before.

The fear that your parents’ comments will seem to your kids the same way they seemed to you is usually unfounded. Many adult children of dysfunctional families don’t want their kids to interact with ...

The holidays with family are a mix of love and tension, where unresolved conflicts often temper the warmth of togetherness. There’s something extraordinary about being around familiar faces that can ...