Widowed Fathers Find Hope and Help in Each Other
The group helps single fathers due to cancer cope with the loss of their wives or partners, meet the demands of parenthood, and manage their children’s grief.
My Parent Has Cancer and it Really Sucks
Maya and Marc Silver understand what it’s like for the million or so teens whose parents have cancer each year.
The Breast Cancer Checklist
Some women find post-treatment the most difficult part of the experience, because you’re ‘supposed to be’ done, but emotionally, it’s hard not to feel some sort of ‘what now?’ letdown.
PARENTS WITH CANCER: “Chemo Gifts Make Separation Easier”
“She needed to talk about it, and my husband and I never tried to censor her.”
How to Be Middle-Aged
I went straight from my thirties to the hospital, where the other patients were all twice my age. For me, 40 was the new 80.
Life Lessons from the Newtown Obituaries
For adults, obits are about what they did. But for children, they’re about who they were.
Why Protecting Your Kids from Your Cancer Can Hurt Them
We parents want to shield our children from the worst of our cancer, but in the process, we can rob them of their emotional rights to process and grieve in their own way.
Be Awkward: Teach Your Sons to Check for Testicular Cancer
So please have that awkward conversation about your son’s testicles. You could save his life.
Parenting with Cancer Improved My Relationship with My Daughter
When both parents get cancer, a teenager steps up to help out, pulling the family closer.
Oh, Shoot: Moms Who Rocked Parenting with Cancer
I said yes, not realizing it would mean I’d end up in pink snakeskin pants and 5-inch Nicole Miller heels, rocking out to Nirvana and sipping Champagne in Manhattan photography studio.
