Jennifer McGuire spent decades dreaming of a long stay in Europe while raising four sons on her own. After they were all grown up, she made it a reality and traveled solo for the first time in her ...

On an ordinary Monday evening this past June, after hanging my new bird feeder and chatting with me over dinner about nothing ...

Jamie Delaney didn’t know what to expect when she became an empty nester in 2023. She'd left her full-time job as a professor in child psychology 12 years ago to stay home with her two kids. Once her ...

North Texas parents share the ways they’ve coped with the major life transition, and how life in an empty nest can be a ...

The day a child leaves home can be bittersweet for parents. Although a son or daughter being successful and mature enough to move on to new opportunities can be a source of pride, parents typically ...

Gwyneth Paltrow said she "really struggled" when her kids, Apple Martin, 21, and Moses Martin, 19, flew the nest.

This month, our twin boys — our only children — will fly the coop and head off to university. For the first time in 19 years, just two of us and our 12-pound Maltese Shih Tzu will be rattling around ...

A dad of grown kids reflects on the cycles of laundry completed over the cycles of his life, from young parenthood to empty ...

I never used to know what kind of pizza I liked. A small but strangely telling detail about my life. I was always the adult ordering for me and my four sons — usually an extra-large cheese, maybe ...