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A southern California man allegedly hit his crying 7-year-old son and then threw him off on a tour boat in busy Newport Harbor, Orange County authorities said Tuesday.

Adrian McLemore, once a foster child himself, decided he couldn't let the same thing happen to his nephew and niece so he became an accidental father.

President Barack Obama says being a dad is sometimes his hardest job, but also the most rewarding.

The woman started crying. I didn't expect this, because, well, why would I? We were two adults, standing in a preschool auditorium, waiting for the year-end musical gala to begin, talking summer plans and Twitter and junk fiction and all things mindless parents talk at mindless events. Then -- tears. "My husband," she said, "doesn't care."

As a publisher I appreciate a provocative headline. A good hook is more important than ever in our link-and-like economy. But I bristled at the sexist assumption in the title of Daniel Freedman’s March 16th column, “Do Women Need to Act Like Men on Wall Street?” and I thought: will men in our culture ever catch a break?

Michael Jackson feared his father so much he would faint or vomit sometimes when his father entered the room -- even when the pop singer was an adult, according to a book written by a former Jackson confidant.

A Texas mother of twins got the shock of her life when doctors revealed that her 11-month-old boys do not have the same father.

I've been on eight business trips in recent months. I'm away so much that my wife, Susan, searches for my photo on the backs of milk cartons, and I've been told my kids are looking to Elmo as a father figure.

Baby-faced Alfie, who is 13 but looks more like eight, became a father four days ago when his girlfriend Chantelle Steadman gave birth to 7lb 3oz Maisie Roxanne.