Before you go

Before You Go: Sarah Mian on the heartbreak of unexplained infertility, and the cosmic relationship between biological and adoptive parents

Before You Go: Dan Zaiontz says pop culture gives in-laws a bad rap—his continue to provide essential help in the raising of his three small kids

Before You Go: Chris Inchley spent thousands of hours on Sea Kings, the military helicopters that served Canada for 55 years. He piloted the final Sea King flight in service to Canada.

Before You Go: Lana Dyment on the despairing consequences of ’chemobrain’ and how through the fog, she sees what really matters

Before You Go: When her mum died, Ishani Nath and her dad became closer, talking like never before. The one thing they’ve avoided: what if he wanted to date again?

Before You Go: Mike Commito and his wife Chantal wanted their young child to have French as a mother tongue. But what would that mean for a father who’s hardly fluent?

Before You Go: Luke Ottenhof and his family endured a year of tragic deaths. But death can teach us how to live—lessons he wants his parents to know

Before You Go: Michael Coren on the promises that parents make to their children—and how his daughter Lucy showed him how symbiotic parenthood really is

Before You Go: Elamin Abdelmahmoud’s daughter was given a name that was a gift as much as it was a burden—and both were by design

Before You Go: Some of Daphnée Lévesque’s loved ones suffer from mental illness, and have tried to take their own lives—a struggle she understands firsthand. Still, she holds hope.