Let’s be honest: families where siblings get along perfectly all the time are the stuff of fairy tales. In most homes, daily life is a blend of affection, teasing, and the occasional slammed door. A ...

A sibling relationship can be your closest bond—or your most complicated one. But there is a trick to making yours better, no matter where you’re starting from.

As soon as the therapy room door closed behind me, before I could even sit down, my single, 45-year-old client, Jenna, let loose a river of tears. Between her sobs, she managed to say, “I can’t take ...

Lily, aged seven, and her brother, Jared, five, are known to start each day the same way: with a bowl of cheerios and an argument. One day they haggle over who has more chocolate; the next over who ...