The National Health and Medical Research Council call for public submissions on whether sex selection should be allowed without a medical reason recognises changing social attitudes.
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Footage of children throwing tantrums when their tablet is taken away can be unsettling. But the fact is technology can be good for their development, if they engage with it positively.
Feeling guilty and out of your depth as a parent? You’re not alone – and there are ways to turn the guilt you’re feeling into positive changes for your family.
Thanks to IVF and donor conception, infertile couples, single women and lesbian couples now have a better chance of starting families. But while common, it’s rarely openly discussed.
We humans think we sit on top of the food chain, but the pediculosis capitis mite – the head louse – sits above us, on the top of our heads.
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.
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