“Healing doesn’t require villainizing a parent," but recognizing this wound can help you heal many of your relationships.

Molly Jong-Fast with her mother, the writer Erica Jong. For obvious reasons, I am often asked to write about mothers and daughters. I am also asked why the topic is so sticky and so important. The ...

Experiencing your mother's death presents unique challenges, whatever your prior relationship. Here's how to think about it.

On her final World Cup run before retiring from the U.S. ski team in 2011, Sarah Schleper picked up her young son and carried him down the slalom course with her. A bonding moment. Stream NBC 5 for ...

A mother’s death is life-altering. Whether close, indifferent, or estranged, the relationship between a mother and child is weighty, monumental, and closely tied to self-image. When our mother dies, ...

Loving his mom-turned-TikTok costar, Iverson Poff tells PEOPLE, “is the easiest thing I’ll do in my lifetime" Bailey Richards is a Writer-Reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023 ...

Donald Winnicott, a British pediatrician and child psychoanalyst who wrote extensively and compassionately about the relationships between mothers and their infants, is best known among a general ...