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Christina Stead’s masterly 1940 novel of extreme family dysfunction deserves a permanent place in the canon.

This week, Sophie talks about how to be a parent and a lover and answers your general relationships questions.

Jessica Alba thinks four would be fantastic.

Has Andy dumped Woody and the gang?

How a Virginia family got permission to get out-of-network treatment for one son's heart defect, and still ended up drowning in debt.

Police say a man fatally shot his 9-year-old daughter and her baby sitter in a New York City suburb.

As more women are starting their families in their late 30, 40s and even into their 50s, it's not a given they'll live long enough to meet their grandchildren or see all of their kids' big milestones. Some are making big changes to add years to their life spans.

A reader asks for advice on what a healthy in-law relationship looks like and how to create one.

The mother of a chronically ill baby has defended her court battle with the child's father to have his life support machine turned off.

This week at the movies, we've got an anime hero (Astro Boy, with voice work from Kristen Bell and Nicolas Cage); a vampire war ( Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant, starring Chris Massoglia and John C. Reilly); an aviation pioneer (Amelia, starring Hilary Swank and Richard Gere); and gore galore (Saw Vi, starring Costas Mandylor and Mark Rolston). What do the critics have to say? Osamu Tezuka's Astro Boy is one of anime's most iconic and venerable characters. Now he's getting the big-screen CGI treatment, and the result, critics say, is an energetic but derivative affair.