My mother didn’t want me to love him. She wanted me to be rid of the bad man. “Just think of it as if I’d been artificially inseminated,” she told me once when I was a teenager, while wiping down the ...

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DEAR ABBY: My brother and I recently found out my father, who has been married for more than 30 years, is having sexual relations with other men. This man accused my brother of being gay (he's not), ...

Dear Abby: I am a 38-year-old woman with a 21-year-old daughter, “Penny.” I got pregnant at 16 and was very much alone, with little help from those around me. For a variety of reasons, I decided not ...

It took my mother getting Alzheimer’s for my siblings and me to learn the truth about our family and childhood. By Brett Paesel For years, the story that I built around my childhood and my parents’ ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from My Father’s Secret Your father abandoned you as a child. After many years of searching, you have tracked down where he lives. What awaits you in this ...