The patterns we carry into adulthood often have their roots in the roles we played in our childhood families. These roles developed as intelligent survival strategies — ways to navigate our family’s ...

Aaron Renn is out with a new edition of his must-read e-mail newsletter, The Masculinist, which concerns problems related to men in the Christian church. Subscribe to it (it’s free) and read the ...

Can a family film win a screenplay Oscar? That depends on how you define a family film. “For many years, what we would call ‘family’ was an issue of censorship,” said Tom Sito, a storyboard artist on ...

Tyler Perry’s heart is in the right place, but he still has a tin ear. The same tonal problems that plagued last year’s “Diary of a Mad Black Woman” resurface in “Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Family Reunion.