A quarter of all children in the United States are being brought up in single parent families, and 84 percent of the roughly 13 million single parents in the country are women or single mothers who are rearing one or more children alone. Showing their challenges and opportunities, a video aired this weekend pays tribute to them.

In a rare bipartisan move, Congressional leaders, including House Speaker John Boehner and Minority leader Nancy Pelosi, have urged the Obama administration to ensure protection of the persecuted family of blind Chinese legal activist Chen Guangcheng who fled to the U.S. last year.

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No cemetery was allowing the family of Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev to bury his remains until a Christian woman, who was inspired by Jesus' command to love one's enemies, took the initiative this week to help arrange the burial at a Muslim cemetery in Virginia.

Dannah Gresh, a best-selling author and advocate for the sexual purity movement, was a featured speaker at this year's TEDxPSU event at Pennsylvania State University, and spoke about sexual myths that are hurting teenagers and college students who are navigating a culture that promotes tolerance of all sexual behaviors and choices, except abstinence.

Debate over prayer in school made headlines again, this time in the Riverside School District in Lake City, Ark. Its school board voted on Monday to cancel its sixth grade ceremony rather than to allow prayer to be a part of the ceremony.

A federal judge, who ordered last month that the Plan B emergency contraceptive pill be made available to young teens and girls without a doctor's prescription, denied on Friday the Obama administration's request to temporarily halt the order, calling the bid "frivolous" and politically motivated.

Kidnap victim, Michelle Knight, could continue to shun her family and is considering being adopted by the family of fellow kidnap victim Gina DeJesus, according to reports Friday.

Most Americans are in favor of the Boy Scouts of America lifting its ban on gay scouts and gay leaders within its organization, a new poll shows.

Kidnap victim, Michelle Knight, is shunning her family as she recuperates in hospital after being rescued from 11 years of captivity in the home of abductor, Ariel Castro.