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The opioid epidemic, boosted by the arrival of the drug fentanyl, has torn through communities in Southern Oregon. It’s also having a devastating impact on mothers struggling with addiction. An innovative facility in the Rogue Valley is helping those parents and their children.
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Under a system that has long prioritized local control for school districts. state officials now are fighting some recent board decisions regarding LGBTQ students.
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It was a tale of two opposing events on parents’ role in California schools — though one was postponed because of Tropical Storm Hilary.
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Parents love their children, but sometimes they no longer love each other. Separation and divorce can get heated, and the tension creates problems in…
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The news of a couple of weeks ago only confirmed the continuation of a trend: fewer American women are having babies. In fact, the most recent figures…
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Blood, sweat, and tears are often present at the birth of any child. It takes a lot of work to give birth. And then things get harder. The basic arc of…
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Parenting is always a tricky business, even in the best of circumstances. Parents frequently second-guess themselves about when to intervene and when to…
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It's not every day we read a co-memoir. Especially when such a book is published after the death of one of the co-authors. But Ashland resident Josh Gross…
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It's frequently true that women who return to work after having children feel some concerns about the effect on the kids. Pamela Lenehan's book My Mother,…
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Maybe the parents of the baby boomers were a little on the lax side, often telling their kids just to be home in time for dinner. The parenting pendulum…
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The longstanding joke "my kids will need years of therapy to get over me" reflects our main concern about parenting: what are we doing to our children?…