It’s important to have an “open dialogue” around the dinner table to encourage a nonjudgmental space for family members to talk. (Getty Images) For many families, the COVID-19 pandemic was a time of ...

Growing up, Jo Hayes ate dinner at the same time in the same way every night — at 6:30 p.m. on the dot, at a properly set table and right after the evening news. Her mother, father and all six kids ...

Growing up, I remember how important family dinners were. We would have big Sunday dinners with our extended family weekly. However, my family unit at home was not the best at dining together. We did ...

Ms. White is the author of the forthcoming novel “Like Family.” For 18 years my family ate dinner together almost every night. We talked, we laughed, we fought, we told stories. Sometimes someone left ...

Readers respond to an Opinion guest essay by Erin O. White about how she stopped cooking dinner. To the Editor: Re “Why I Had to Kill Family Dinner,” by Erin O. White (Opinion guest essay, Oct. 16): ...

While troubling, such exchanges are more from an earlier era in which family dinner was virtually inviolate. Today, that glue of familial connection and problem-solving is often but a memory from ...