Family and parenting

Fitzsimmons-Peters died July 9 from post-delivery complications, just days after giving birth to Josie, her second child and only daughter. She was 34. Josie is healthy, her family said.

Howard County’s Bynia Reed is taking her Hyper Kidz indoor playgrounds national through franchising.

Mya Coleman, 9, and her dad, Albert, have had to navigate a new life of doctors and financial worries since her heart transplant. But Mya’s strength, faith, pluckiness and stubbornness have sustained them.

As the virtual realm of teens expands unfettered and unsupervised, the physical realm of teens — already limited by barriers of driver’s licenses, drinking ages, parental consent and finances — is shrinking in the Baltimore area.

Now that Baltimore Pride is over, some in the LGBTQIA+ community know that the fight for gender minority rights and existence also relies heavily on having meaningful straight allies.

The contract promises to swiftly implement encrypted chip technology used in credit and debit cards — along with a myriad of other protections — for Marylanders that use the state’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and other cash assistance.

When the Archdiocese of Baltimore announced plans to close dozens of Catholic churches, Our Lady of Victory in Arbutus was on the list. But parishioners, including many Burmese refugees, fought successfully to save a church that many say has become like a second home.

When Baltimoreans hit the polls in November, they’ll have the chance to vote on whether City Hall should give a one-time payment of $1,000 to parents upon the birth or adoption of a child.

A group raised to revere their pastors reaches out to former classmates and friends. They discover dozens of abuse allegations, including several linked to one family.

With parents facing a dearth of reliable afterschool care, a dojo in Ellicott City provides a unique option

Morelys Urbano, a Morgan State University student and fellow who advocates for language justice, relates how her native language sustained her as she navigated the necessity of learning English.

Stella the Hawk, who escaped after a tree fell on her enclosure at Oregon Ridge, was safely recaptured in Perry Hall on Sunday. She lost a lot of weight, but is regaining her strength at Phoenix Wildlife Rescue.

One-third of U.S. adults know someone who has overdosed and died, a Johns Hopkins survey found.

Meeting the the needs of migrant children in Maryland and their families will make our communities stronger, a Pikesville physician says.

Maryland voters have every reason to be skeptical about Larry Hogan’s announcement at the start of his 2024 general election campaign for the U.S. Senate that he now favors abortion rights, says a former Maryland official who compares the announcement to President George H.W. Bush's “no new taxes” pledge.

Communities must stand against the language that criminalizes and dehumanizes immigrants, says the managing attorney of an organization supporting immigrant survivors of gender-based violence in Baltimore.

Maryland must do more to address the educational, health and other urgent needs of migrant children, say a Johns Hopkins primary care pediatrician and a professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Anna Dewdney's Llama Llama series has delighted children for nearly 20 years. The beloved author died of brain cancer in 2016, but her daughter Berol Dewdney embodies her mother’s message of empathy, compassion and the power of play in a Baltimore City Public Schools pre-K classroom.

Affordability, comfort and good quality hardly seem to coexist in clothes for pregnant bodies.

Maybe the best I can do on this or any Mother’s Day is to write a little note to her. I know she won’t read it, but it feels good to write it as if she would.