Kathleen Parker

Say you're a woman. Say you've resisted the temptation to have multiple adulterous affairs. Say you want to be president of the United States. Don't inhale, but now would be...

So that's what they meant by the feminization of the workplace. I'm talking about lactation rooms, of course. Distracted as Americans have been by the near-collapse of the global market,...

The sad fact is, all a man has to do is say "I'm sorry," and we'll forgive him. We women, that is. So rare is the male apology that women...

The nature vs. nurture debate has taken another twist. Neither heredity nor parents play the lead roles in child-rearing. It's the peers, stupid. So says Judith Rich Harris, author of...

Columnist Leonard Pitts Jr., wrote recently of standing watch over the "River of Goo" that metaphorical crossover time when clever, energetic, self-confident daughters reach adolescence and become someone their dads...

It's always gratifying when a study comes along to offer scientific validation for what any daffy zygote can plainly see. This week's startling revelation is that babies have a better...

Everyone's aghast. How could it happen? How could 150 high school boys and girls get drunk and behave badly on an airplane high above the American landscape, out of range...

Everybody knows it. Breathing secondhand smoke kills non-smokers. Except that now, it seems, maybe it doesn't. A North Carolina federal judge ruled Friday that the Environmental Protection Agency's 1993 report...

Except for that one thing--smothering her 6-week-old daughter to death--Latrena Pixley was a good mother, the lawyer told the judge. Which argument surely explains why Pixley is gaining custody of...

I hope I only have to say this once--and if you tell my husband, I'll deny it--but I don't always know all the answers. Take library porn. If only you...