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Mindful of costs, a reader wonders whether she and her husband are obligated to extend the same hospitality to their daughter’s best friend as to their son’s partner.

A reader asks whether she has to apologize after recounting a joke that used racist language in front of her son’s friend, who later said he had felt unsafe.

A reader’s adult stepchildren want nothing to do with her or their father after learning that the couple plan to leave their estates to each other. Should he reach out?