See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. It's interesting to see the term "conditional love" reenter the ...

Note: In a previous post, Unconditional Love is Bad!, I provoked some strong responses from readers. The main beef that they had was with my notion that parents withdraw their love from their children ...

The truth is, it’s painful to see all the subtle behaviors that people tend to display when their parents only showed them love when they did whatever their parents asked them to. The kids who grew up ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Recently, in the New York Times' science section and Motherlode blog, ...

My three brothers and I are all senior citizens, and throughout our lives we have endured a very difficult relationship with our mother. From the time we were children, she was physically and ...

There are two great defining features of child-rearing today. First, children are now praised to an unprecedented degree. As Dorothy Parker once joked, American children aren’t raised; they are ...

Note: In a previous post, Unconditional Love is Bad!, I provoked some strong responses from readers. The main beef that they had was with my notion that parents withdraw their love from their children ...