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Different Ways of Raising Your Children | Parenting Around the World | Real Families

2018

How you raise your children is completely up to you, and how you discipline them can be different all around the world. Should smacking be illegal or does it depend on the child’s behaviour? What do you think? How involved are your family with raising your children?

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Far from the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity

Solomon’s startling proposition in Far from the Tree is that being exceptional is at the core of the human condition—that difference is what unites us.

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Andrew Solomon
2013
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Trans Kids and Teens: Pride, Joy, and Families in Transition

A comprehensive guide to the medical, emotional, and social issues of trans kids. These days, it is practically impossible not to hear about some aspect of transgender life.

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Elijah C. Nealy
2025
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Coming Out, Coming Home: Helping Families Adjust to a Gay or Lesbian Child

The discovery that a child is lesbian or gay can send shockwaves through a family. A mother will question how she’s raised her son; a father will worry that his daughter will experience discrimination.

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Michael LaSala
2025
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We’ve Got This: Stories by Disabled Parents

How do two parents who are blind take their children to the park? How is a mother with dwarfism treated when she walks her child down the street? How do Deaf parents know when their baby cries in the night? When writer and musician Eliza Hull was pregnant with her first child, like most...

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Eliza Hull (editor)
2022
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Autism and Family Life

An autism diagnosis affects the whole family. Explore ways to help parents, siblings, and extended family to live well with and support an autistic family member.

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Verywell Health
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Stop Fighting Your Child’s Neurodiversity: A Step-by-Step Plan for Parents in Diagnosis Denial

Your child is wired differently, and that means his life may not follow the path you envisioned. Before you can help him thrive, you must give yourself space and time to recognize the emotions that a neurodivergent diagnosis brings. Here’s how to get started embracing your new “normal.”

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Deborah Reber
2020
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Keeping Love Close

What does love look like in a time of hate? Asian and Asian-American photographers and essayists respond.

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Celeste Ng
2021
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Overcoming Your Difficult Family: 8 Skills for Thriving in Any Family Situation

When you encounter difficult people in your daily life, the easiest solution is to cut and run. But when the difficult people in question are your parents, siblings, children, or all of the above, you can’t always end the relationships.

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Eric Maisel
2017
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Hola Papi: How to Come Out in a Walmart Parking Lot and Other Life Lessons

The first time someone called John Paul (JP) Brammer “Papi” was on the gay hookup app Grindr. At first, it was flattering; JP took this as white-guy speak for “hey, handsome.

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John Paul Brammer
2025
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The Changing Ways Parents React to Their Kids Coming Out of the Closet

A conversation with the sociologist Mary Robertson on how some queer youth are pleasantly surprised with the lack of family drama the news causes.

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Natalie Escobar
2018
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