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Fear-based messages from practitioners and awareness campaigns encourage perfectionism and unwarranted personal responsibility for events over which new mums may have little control.
Thanks to IVF and donor conception, infertile couples, single women and lesbian couples now have a better chance at starting families. But how does it all work? Ask the experts here.
By limiting financial support to smaller families, the government is doing its best to stop undesirables from reproducing.
By better supporting at-risk families we can prevent the ‘transmission’ of mental illness from parents to children.
Liberal senator Cory Bernardi, a vocal opponent of same-sex marriage, has said that “the very best thing” for the development of a child is to have a mum and a dad. What does the research say?
Most heterosexual parents who conceive via donor conception never tell their children.
Women are supposed to be happy about motherhood – if they’re not their parenting is open to question. We have seen a ‘Parenting Hate’ backlash against this, but what’s needed most is better social support.
Attachment theory can help in understanding some disruptive class behaviour.
Should ‘think of the children’ ever come to the point of spying on teenagers?
Moms don’t have to be designated worriers.
Why the modern role of men as fathers is something we must embrace.
One of the most common surgical procedures undertaken in the world today – one that every human alive has undergone – is the clamping and cutting of the umbilical cord at birth.
Parents want to simultaneously support and push their kids. But when it comes to sports, this mentality can backfire in subtle ways.
Whether you are over-protective or more laissez-faire, the chances are that someone, somewhere will be criticising your parenting style.
Should we teach our kids to share their things considering adults don’t share their possessions? Shouldn’t kids be taught not to use things that aren’t theirs? Maybe we should just let them figure things out for themselves.
A central argument made against same-sex marriage is that children born into these marriages will be disadvantaged: they will grow up with inappropriate gender role modelling and be bullied at school.
When pro football players like Chris Borland quit, it should send a strong message to parents. But there are a host of issues, besides health, to consider.
There’s nothing to start a debate like Germaine Greer letting fly. This time it was about Elton John’s family.
If you want to know a child’s gender, just ask them and then listen to the answer.
Top contributors
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Professor, Canada Research Chair in Determinants of Child Development, Owerko Centre at the Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute, University of Calgary
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Senior Lecturer in Psychology, University of the Sunshine Coast
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Professor of Child Public Health, Swansea University
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Associate Professor in Psychology, Deakin University
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Professor of Midwifery, Associate Dean Research and HDR, Midwifery Discipline Leader, Western Sydney University
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Researcher: Digital Literacy and Digital Wellbeing, Western Sydney University
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Assistant professor, School of Psychology, Scientist, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
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Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Western Sydney University
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Senior Lecturer in Education, Queensland University of Technology
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Senior Lecturer in Education, Edith Cowan University
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Professor of Sociology and Founding Director of The Future of Work Lab, Podcast at MissPerceived, The University of Melbourne
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Assistant Professor Psychology Department, Bond University
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Lecturer, School of Education, Edith Cowan University
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Head of School of Education and Professor of Educational Psychology, University of Wollongong
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Laureate Professor in Nutrition and Dietetics, University of Newcastle
