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Dear Abby is written by Abigail Van Buren, also known as Jeanne Phillips, and was founded by her mother, Pauline Phillips. Contact Dear Abby at www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA ...

My kid’s age gaps first hit me at my oldest child’s fifth-grade back-to-school picnic. Some of the families there had pre-teens. Others had preschoolers. And a few had babies. Ours was the only one ...

So here we are at the outset of named-storm season: more displacement, more societal shunning and worse, all while ...