The rite of passage used to go like this: child goes off to college, child graduates from college, child ventures out into the world, child’s bedroom becomes a guest room, sewing room, weight room, etc.

Not so fast. A new study out today from the Pew Research Center said that nearly 1 in 7 parents with grown children had a child move back in with them in the past year. Blame the economy and the country’s 10.2 percent unemployment rate. Experts say young adults feel the brunt of a recession first and will be among the last to feel the recovery.

While…

The case of a school strip-searching a 13-year-old girl after getting a tip she had prescription-strength ibuprofen on her wound up before the Supreme Court on Tuesday.

Schools have the right, and the duty, to make themselves safe. We send our children there for seven or eight hours a day, roughly 180 days a year. Some schools use metal detectors; some use drug-sniffing dogs. Many, if not most, have students sign ‘contracts’ that if they participate in extra-curricular activities, they are held to a certain standard of conduct. At least, that’s the case at the school my teenagers attend.

A strip…