Are you the one everyone in your family turns to when there is a problem? If you answered yes, you know what it feels like to carry your family's burdens and responsibilities on your shoulders. You ...

It may not occur to adults to go to family therapy with their parents. Family therapy conjures up images of parents trying to manage young children or get through to stubborn teenagers. But family ...

Family meetings are often touted as an effective way to resolve conflicts, work out some shared goals and bring the family together. They seem to wax and wane in popularity. But as Google Trends shows ...

Soon after Jonathan Cottor’s son Ryan was born, he was diagnosed with spinal muscular atrophy — a degenerative disease for which, at the time, there was no treatment. The doctors essentially told ...

For years, Mitul Desai felt that the best way to deal with his little brother's schizophrenia was to avoid talking about it. His brother had become angry and withdrawn during his first year in college ...

In the aftermath of the tragic Bondi knife attack, Joel Cauchi’s parents have spoken about their son’s long history of mental illness, having been diagnosed with schizophrenia at age 17. They said ...

If I refuse, her future looks shakier. If I help, my family may never forgive me. By Kwame Anthony Appiah Kwame Anthony Appiah has been The New York Times Magazine’s Ethicist columnist since 2015 and ...