Friendship is important at any age—friends enhance our lives by offering support and community. Activities can be more fun with a friend by your side, and tough times are made more bearable with the ...

Whether you're a parent or a kid, you probably think that it's healthy for a child to have a best friend. The New York Times might disagree. An article by Hilary Stout on Thursday cites experts and ...

Though my work within the area of friendship has focused mostly on adults, the importance of friendship among children cannot be emphasized enough. I recently talked with psychologist Eileen ...

The past few pandemic years have not made for ideal circumstances for our children to make or deepen friendships. At first, there was physical isolation, a clear and obvious hindrance to building or ...

It is a new plea from Jennifer Barahona, director of the Center for Youth Development at Family & Children's Agency. Usually, Barahona is pleading with teens and adults to sign up for FCA's Project ...

While young children may not be able to articulate the difference, they value deep friendships over casual connections. By Janet Manley “What is a friend?” asks Forky (voiced by actor Tony Hale) on ...

In this season of gratitude, one family is especially thankful for an unexpected friendship made at the hospital. Every ...