Family

Milwaukee journalist Tom Kertscher feels gratitude that many years ago, he put his reporter skills to work and captured some of the things his daughter said as a child.

For one week at Belong Wisconsin’s summer camp, foster children experience what it is like to be close to their biological sibling. And as funding becomes uncertain, all involved with the camp are determined to keep it going.

Advocate and adoptee Diana Higgenbottom Anagnostopoulos shared the emotional and legal obstacles that some adoptees face without access to their original birth certificate.

UW-Madison sociologist Allison Daminger’s new book tracks what she calls “cognitive labor” and the gender imbalances she found interviewing more than 80 couples.

Andrew Patrie is like most parents. The Eau Claire author loves his child, but acknowledges the awkward moments.

Debra Gillispie’s grief journey took her from outrage and a mission to shut down a bar, to driving across the country and back, to 20 years of leading local advocacy and reform efforts, and ultimately, to the prison that’s holding the man who killed her son.

Wisconsin native Lori Schneider is the first person with MS to complete the Seven Summits, a capstone achievement for any serious mountaineer. Schneider says the reason she got into mountaineering in the first place is her dad.

Kristina Amelong explores her brother’s legacy in a new memoir about family, continuing through tragedy and the mystery surrounding what happened.

Dr. Zorba Paster is very clear on the importance of having a power of attorney: “Everyone, and I mean everyone, should have an advance directive.”

Wisconsin ranks No. 49 out of 50 states in measles vaccination rates for children. Dr. Zorba Paster writes, “How did that happen? Are we just lazy? Or are we just dumb?”