Family and parenting

Former members of Greater Grace World Outreach were shunned after leaving the controversial megachurch. For many, it took decades to build a new life outside.

Rachel Morin's five children have filed a lawsuit alleging their grandmother and aunt have kept the proceeds from a GoFundMe and four other fundraisers.

Here’s how to celebrate fall at Maryland events — while perhaps making your mark on social media.

Food insecurity in rural Maryland has been especially pronounced this summer, local advocates say. Low-income families are grappling with soaring grocery prices and unusually high temperatures that hit at the same time as federal reductions in food assistance programs.

“This is the library they’re going to remember, but a thousand times better," Sonia Alcántara-Antoine, the CEO of the Baltimore County Public Library, said of the renovated Catonsville branch.

Measures to protect access have already qualified to go before voters this year in Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Maryland, Missouri, Montana, Nevada and South Dakota. Meanwhile, competing measures to expand or limit abortion rights will be on the November ballot in Nebraska.

Roosevelt Park in Hampden got a new playground this summer — and it’s about to get even more new equipment, according to city recreation and parks officials.

A dispute over the Baby Bonus Fund, a Baltimore ballot initiative that would provide $1,000 payments to new parents, is headed to the Maryland Supreme Court.

Cara Bean started the nonprofit Erin’s Star in her daughter’s memory to train more survival-focused swim instructors.

A developer’s unexpected death has led to the abrupt closure of a day care tucked inside a historic Mount Vernon church, leaving parents scrambling to find alternative childcare with just days’ notice.

Being called a racial slur is an unfortunate rite of passage for many kids, and it’s not going to stop just because we ignore it.

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.