Ask parents how they feel about their adolescent arguing with them and many will say they could get by with less or even be content with none. They find adolescent argument pointless, irritating, and ...

A teacher says parents are arguing over small issues more than ever, and it’s starting to spill into the classroom environment in noticeable ways. Small misunderstandings that might once have been ...

Parents staring at a disappointing report card are not just reacting to letters on a page, they are weighing what kind of adults their children will become. That is why arguments flare so quickly over ...

Disputes among parents are not an uncommon occurrence in a family. Of course, children notice all of this, and this environment affects them in many ways. They are very observing, emotionally attached ...

Adolescence is a disputatious age. Dispute about what? For the adolescent, any issue will often do when the point of the dispute is argument itself. The young person is testing his or her power of ...

My parents never argued in front of me. Looking back, the closest they came to disagreeing with each other in front of my sister and I were the pursed lips that signaled “we’re definitely going to ...