From educating ourselves about male development to providing adult role models, we can make sure our communities are working for boys.

Research shows that parent involvement improves student achievement, school programs, and the school environment. As a follow up to the 1996 Kids Count project, the Annie E. Casey Foundation offers an overview of family participation programs that use different strategies to involve parents.

How many times have you agonized over how to talk to your kids about sensitive issues like self-esteem and drug abuse? The National PTA has put together a collection of resources to assist parents in talking with their children about these issues and many others.

STOP IT NOW! Program director Joan Tabachnick offers advice for parents on treating child sexual abuse. STOP IT NOW! calls on abusers and potential abusers to stop and seek help and educates the public about the trauma of child sexual abuse and how to help stop it.

In 1988, Kyle Pruett wrote a seminal book called The Nurturing Father. In the early 1990s, he hosted his own parenting program on the Lifetime cable network, and, as a clinical professor of psychiatry at the Yale Child Study Center, he has tracked the progress of fatherhood more faithfully than almost anyone else in the country.

Being a single parent, or the child of a single parent, is a tough role in today's society. But with the support of individuals, communities, and institutions, single-parent families can be ones in which children thrive. Read this excerpt from Youth in Single Parent Families by Peter Benson and Eugene Roehlkepartain.

Senior Editor Richard Louv writes that the need to decrease parent isolation is especially crucial for single parents, whose children may suffer the consequences.

The founder of the Single Parents Association offers practical advice for getting and giving support to single parents.

Parents need to be involved in their lives, writes Senior Editor Richard Louv, but in a way that fosters independence, say teens.

Warm and authoritative parents provide powerful protection against the risks of adolescence, according to this article by Senior Editor Richard Louv.