The seed of this rumor was undoubtedly planted when Dr. Spock's grandson Peter took his own life on December 25 in 1983 by jumping from the roof of Boston's Children's Museum.

Dr. Spock: An American Life By Thomas Maier Harcourt Brace, 537 pages, $30 `Dr. Spock: An American Life” is more than a well-researched biography of America’s favorite baby doctor; it i… ...

Dr. Benjamin Spock, the 20th-century icon of parenting expertise, has been replaced by a chorus of conflicting ideas and advice.

Dr. Benjamin Spock is 91 and worried. Not about the usual things, like health — “I don’t feel great, but until two years ago I didn’t even feel old”; or love — he’s happily married ...

BOSTON — It was not a book that parents merely read. We clutched it like a steering wheel. We held onto it like a security blanket through the sleep-deprived terrors of early parenthood.When the ...

Pediatrician Dr Benjamin Spock, seen examining a child in 1964, revolutionized American child-rearing by advising parents to rely more on a loving “common sense” approach.

Dr. Spock is back -- and this isn't "Star Trek." The famed pediatrician Benjamin Spock, whose 1946 tome "Baby and Child Care" may be the bestselling book after the Bible, has a new company named ...

When I was growing up, my mother had a secret lover, a man who guided her, consoled her and kept her company in her most private, panicked moments.Actually, although this man was mysterious and a ...