I was a slacker parent in the 1950 s and ’60s. As a dyed-in-the-wool slacker, I wasn’t surprised when the Surgeon General of the United States, Dr. Vivek Murthy , recently reported that “… 48% of the ...

I learned about polio in medical school as a disease of history. When it was at its peak in the 1940s and early 1950s, parents were terrified that their children would be among the tens of thousands ...

Before swiping right or ghosting someone became part of the dating lexicon, courtship in the 1950s followed a playbook of tradition and etiquette, which wasn’t free from a fair dose of parental ...