Family Matters Radio is an informative, entertaining and inspiring talk radio program focused on issues concerning women and families. FMR features nationally-known experts, best-selling authors, newsmakers and celebrities in friendly conversation, sharing expert advice to help us all raise healthy families and special insight on the experience of being a woman in today's world. Developed and hosted by broadcast media veterans and long-time friends Caroline Kruse and Jacquie Chakirelis, the program is celebrating its 10th year on the air on both AM and FM stations around the country and via podcasts internationally.

Caroline and Jacquie talk about this week's news you can use- what does Victoria Secret have to do with breast feeding moms? Plus, what's coming up on the show this week.

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The Fall TV season is now upon us.  Fifty-three series, new and old, will premier in the next couple of weeks.  Which shows will make you laugh, make you cry, and which ones are a big waste of time for you and your family? Jacquie and Caroline will find out what's hot and what's not with Michael Davis, TV Guide magazine’s senior editor and family television expert.
This week's question: Which TV show gets your vote for best new show this season?
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Jacquie and Caroline continue their conversation with Michael Davis, TV Guide magazine’s senior editor and family television expert.

This weeks question: Which new tv show get's your vote for best new show?

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 Media, peers, and even parents send teenage girls dangerously conflicting messages about what it means to look and act just right and to be good, hip, attractive, and desired. Frighteningly, everyday events can start a teen on a downward spiral. The growing rate of depression in teens is alarming, and parents and adults must understand the difference between “adolescent angstâ€? and trouble. Caroline and Jacquie talk with Dr. Lisa Machoian, author of The Disappearing Girl to help parents recognize signals of problem behaviors and find out what they can do to help their daughters before it's too late.
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Category: podcasts -- posted at: 12:23 PM
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Caroline and Jacquie continue their conversation with Dr. Lisa Machoian, author of The Disappearing Girl to help parents recognize signals of problem behaviors and find out what they can do to help their daughters before it's too late.
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Think Nicole Ritchie is to blame for the skin and bone trend? Jacquie and Caroline talk about new research that points to Dad Lionel as the possible culprit.

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Join Caroline and Jacquie for a special program as we remember the 911.

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On Sept 11, 2001, Marian Fontana lost her husband Dave in the World Trade Center attacks. A firefighter for the elite Squad 1 in Brooklyn, Dave died on the couple’s eighth wedding anniversary. As we commemorate the 5th anniversary of 9/11, Caroline and Jacquie talk with Marian about her moving memoir, A Widow's Walk, a chronicle of the year she became a widow, single mother and activist. While reliving her own heartache, Marian also tells the larger, national story of her fight to maintain a dignified and reverent recovery effort at Ground Zero—and of her ongoing commitment to the families of firefighters and all 9/11 victims.
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Caroline and Jacquie continue their conversation with Marian Fontana about her moving memoir to 911.

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Have you ever said to your teen- "You can't where that to school"? Jacquie and Caroline discuss how schools around the country are enforcing a strict dress code.

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Category: podcasts -- posted at: 2:13 PM
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