A daily fight to find food: One family's story
President Obama has pledged to end childhood hunger by 2015. That's less than five years away. But, if anything, the number of hungry children in America has been going up. In 2008, almost 17 million children lived in households where getting enough...

Fighting for the right to marry: a family tradition
Susan Green is a professor of practice at the Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State University. She spent more than 20 years in broadcast journalism as a producer, executive producer and managing editor for stations in Phoenix, Washington,...

Women's rights treaty going nowhere fast in Senate
U.S. ratification of an international treaty to protect women's rights has been held up in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for three decades, a situation women's activists would like to change during the Obama administration. Those who have...