Small Screen | "Red Riding" Threesome and "I Love You, Mommy" in Your Home

In a relatively slow week for specialty releases on the small screen, the UK's "Red Riding" trilogy and Stephanie Wang-Breal's Silverdocs award-winning "Wo Ai Ni (I Love You), Mommy" are given a chance to shine. The "Red Riding" trilogy, based on the novels by David Peace, chronicles crime and the spotty investigations that follow across ten years in West Yorkshire. The films (Julian Jarrold's ...

Hallsville family welcomes addition of special toddler

Michael Cavazos/News-Journal Photo Jason vallery plays with his adopted son Abraham, on Thursday August 26, 2010, in their Hallsville home.

The Patchwork of a Nation

Are we a Catholic nation? Are we a Protestant nation? Are we strict Calvinists? Did we turn Irish when the Irish came to this country in droves, or German when Germans were considered a threat? Are interracial couples as bad as we thought they would be? Isn’t the president half white?

Joyce Maynard: Joyce Maynard: Family Is Ultimate Source Of Inspiration

On the Facebook page of my 26-year-old son--a place I am not encouraged to visit but do, occasionally, when too much time elapses between calls...

How marriage became a federal issue

Under the separation of powers of the U.S. Constitution, activities not enumerated fall to the purview of the states. Such it has been with the jurisdiction of family law. Each state has enacted laws governing marriage, adoption, and sexual activity.