How do women decide how many children to have and when to have them? The data reveal a few major patterns.
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Many people are ‘polyamorous’ — they have two or more romantic partners. Often they struggle to disclose this to family, making for challenges in the holidays.
Children start developing empathy and compassion as toddlers and should have a good understanding of generosity by age nine. Parents can help foster these behaviours.
Family is far more important for developing engagement of young people in civil society than previously thought.
A new study suggests that Americans face an ‘economic bar’ to marriage. Before they walk down the aisle, many couples want to have a house, a bank account and a job that offers health insurance.
More attention needs to be paid to aligning South Africa’s family policy with the realities of everyday life.
The diversity of families is one of the important underlying themes of the South African Child Gauge 2018.
Whether they stay with the same organisations or not, family members have a strong influence on each others’ volunteer habits.
Languages are said to be disappearing faster than endangered species with a different one dying every two weeks.
Tokophobia is a pathological fear of pregnancy and can lead to avoidance of childbirth.
The old myth that it’s impossible for educated women over 40 to get married still lingers. Actually, educated women are doing OK in the U.S. In China, however, the story changes.
A survey in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, shows the more flexible the roles of men and women in the family, the happier they are.
Fear of a Non-Nuclear Family
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In 1968 the idea of the ideal American family was the father as breadwinner, stay-at-home mom, two kids and a white picket fence. But the women's movement and other forces were beginning to change this – and inspire a conservative backlash that persists to this day.
In the 1970s, a young urban planning professor, Dolores Hayden, believed that city design was the key to unlocking patriarchal structures that trapped women in the home. How much has the city changed?
Forget the “summer slide” here’s how you can help your child learn more over the summer holidays.
The number of UK babies being born to surrogate mothers has risen by 255% in the past six years.
Interviews with hundreds of unaccompanied minors in Los Angeles reveal that relationships with US sponsors can be complicated.
The attacks show not only a shift in women’s roles in violent extremism, but also the involvement of families in acts of terror.
The UK has one of the most developed palliative care services in the world, yet people still miss out.
Raising children to speak more than one language is a challenge for parents in today’s world. Here are some tips to raise bilingual children.
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