families

Inside the Fight to Reunite Families Separated at the U.S. Border
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Woman and man with baby in front of table decorated for child's birthday
Immigration
After deportation, a family from Wisconsin will start anew in Cambodia
Photo of a photo of family in front of wall with penguins painted on it
Immigration
The Mexican government says it will help people who are deported, but they often are left to make it on their own
DHS bus
Conflict
The complicated reasons why some people overstay their US visas
Syrian refugee sponsors canada
Culture
Canadians reached out to Syrian refugees. Now they hesitate to let go.
A pregnant woman in the obstetrics and gynecology ward at Severance Hospital in Seoul
Development
In South Korea, parents are increasingly saying, ‘we hope for a girl’
Tavis Smiley and Muhammad Ali speak during a TV interview.
Justice
Muhammad Ali helped Tavis Smiley reconnect with his own father
Matt Hannahs, 32, poses with his son Devin outside their tent
Justice
America’s homeless community is growing
absenteeism
Education
For some parents, getting their kids to school is easier said than done
The basic problem facing endangered species? Too many humans.
Environment
Could the Pill save the polar bear?
Maya Ludtke, Chinese-born, adopted and raised by a Caucasian American mother, embraces both cultures
Culture
Born Chinese, raised American, an adoptee explores her identity
Conflict
Cold from the snow? This video will melt your heart.
Christianne Boudreau lost her son Damian to ISIS. Now she's offering support to parents who've also lost their children to jihadi extremism.
Conflict
‘They look at our children as monsters, and they’re not,’ argues mom of ISIS fighter
A woman looks at camera
Justice
They came to America as adoptees but were never made US citizens
Mary and Royce Thorpe pose at their wedding on December 18th, 1965.
Belief
A scrap of paper leads a sailor to his wife
working mothers unions
Business
My career left no room for motherhood — now I advocate for working moms
My parents, Zen Soun and Shu Chen Huang, shortly after they arrived in the US in May 1986. All these years later, my mother doesn't like to answer the phone because she's self-conscious about her accent.
Arts
Watching the ‘Parents’ episode of Master of None with my own immigrant parents was a revelation
Jones family
Health
From the depths of opiate addiction, a mother earns back her family
Ayesha Albusmait, and her daughter, Reem Abdullah Rashid. Albusmait is one of the small, but growing number of single Emirati woman choosing to adopt.
Belief
When you’re a single woman in the Emirates, but you still want a child
The Durano Father School teaches stoic Korean dads how to be more involved and loving parents.  The program includes a literal lesson on how to hug.
Culture
This school teaches Korean dads ‘how to hug’
Friends and family await loved ones' return.
Conflict
This generation of military families faces the prospect of 20 years of deployments
Ayesha and Marco D'Souza with their daughter Tenaya
Culture
This Mumbai couple waited to adopt a daughter: ‘We just wanted a girl’
Garment shop in Mumbai
Justice
Mumbai slum dwellers say ‘I have to help’ stop violence against women
Sonita Alizadeh is an Afghan rapper singing about women's rights. She's also junior at a high school in Utah. New to the country, Sonita misses her family, who live over 7,000 miles away.
Culture
Starting school in Utah, wishing home wasn’t 7,000 miles away
Tearful reunion between families separated by the North and South Korean war.
Global Politics
North and South Korea renew plans to reunite families separated by war
A couple
Lifestyle
Therapist says couples that stay together unfriend each other
Boston students
Education
Teaching a global nation: US classrooms are becoming an unlikely immigration battleground
ISIS black and white flag
Conflict
The mothers of ISIS are often left to wonder what happened
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Development
It took a bride shortage for some northern India communities to realize the value of girls
Actor Song Il Kook with his triplets, Daehan, Minguk, and Manse. They're featured on the Korean reality show, "Superman is Back."
Culture
Could a Korean reality show make men better fathers — and husbands?
Stay-at-home dad Wonhoe Bae with his two boys in their apartment in South Korea.  He does all the childcare, meal planning, and manages the home.
Culture
What’s this Korean man doing in the kitchen?
Kaomi Goetz, 44, (r) with distant relative, Alice Thompson, 28. They're both Korean-American adoptees who found a shared genetic connection on a DNA database, after they had met by chance at a gathering for adoptees in Brooklyn, New York. Kaomi is still t
Science
Korean adoptees are using DNA kits to get a glimpse of their ancestry
A poster for Chicano-Con
Culture
In San Diego, the Barrio’s answer to Comic-Con: Chicano-Con
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Economics
For adopted Guatemalans, a searcher will look for birth moms. But sometimes the reunions are fraught.
LeVar Burton
Education
The host of Reading Rainbow wants you to take a look in a book this summer
Narayana Angulo, Govinda Angulo, Jagadisa Angulo, Bhagavan Angulo, Mukunda Angulo and Krsna Angulo in THE WOLFPACK
Culture
These brothers lived trapped in isolation, with movies their only connection to the outside world
Pamela Brown and Mariano Nuñez at a Hague conference on private international law. They've been working on cross-border child abduction cases together for 15 years.
Justice
How a Texas legal aid lawyer is bringing kidnapped children home from Mexico
Danielle Meitiv waits with her son Rafi, 10, for Danielle's six-year-old daughter, Dvora, to be dropped off at the neighborhood school bus stop in Silver Spring, Maryland.
Lifestyle
How a two-and-a-half block walk threatens to tear a family apart
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Health
These women show what it looks like to survive Ebola in Liberia
Health
‘I didn’t think I’d be able to get pregnant the first time I had sex’
A red envelope is given out during Chinese Lunar New Year celebrations in Liverpool, England, on February 22, 2015.
Lifestyle
LGBT couples turn a Lunar New Year tradition into a plea for acceptance
Loyda Rodríguez holding a photograph that shows her daughter Anyelí and her siblings.
Justice
One girl’s controversial adoption, and what it says about Guatemala’s broken international adoption system
An Iranian couple rests in a park in central Tehran.
Culture
More young Iranian couples are living together before marriage
Hospice hands
Belief
A new husband’s care for his father’s dead body changed his wife’s view of death and dying
Rainey takes part in a Sri Lankan parade in Lebanon.
Global Politics
A Sri Lankan girl living in Lebanon isn’t really a citizen of either country
A football
Global Politics
In blue America, parents are becoming far more uncomfortable with letting their kids play football
Carlos Ramos
Justice
A teen’s parents are allowed to stay in the US, but he still faces deportation
A United Nations peacekeeper stands guard are Haitians gather to see U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon visit the village of Los Palmas.
Conflict
Haitian moms demand UN help for the babies their peacekeepers left behind
Global Politics
The Bush-Obama transition begins
Four More Years and President Obama’s Legacy
The President’s Next Four Years
Romney Wins Michigan and Arizona Primaries
Wealth, Presidents, and Being ‘Out of Touch’
Arts, Culture & Media
Why Most Presidential Contenders Hide Their Language Skills
New Book Offers Portrait of First Lady Michelle Obama
Arts, Culture & Media
Special Relationship? Behind the Doors of Buckingham Palace
Arts, Culture & Media
New family in the neighborhood: The Obamas and Washington, D.C.
Global Politics
Barack Obama’s African Family Tree