Some women use fertility apps to track the chances of pregnancy.
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Fertility apps aim to help women understand their bodies. But while some find tracking their data a positive experience, others may feel burdened or trapped.
Working together.
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Family is far more important for developing engagement of young people in civil society than previously thought.
Remember to look for the positives in your child’s report.
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School reports are coming soon. Here’s a guide for how to interpret and make best use of your child’s school report.
Thanks Dad.
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Values – and capital – are clearly passed down from one generation to the next.
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Most dads aren’t taking shared parental leave – new research reveals why.
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Poorer families don’t have the resources to achieve the same as better off families – yet they’re being blamed for their situation.
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Parent blaming has taken a new turn – no longer just criticised for failing to attend to their child’s every need, parents are now being condemned for ‘over-parenting’.
Conflict, and not the separation itself, is a greater predictor of how children will fare post-divorce.
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Most parents worry how their child will fare after divorce. Most will be fine, so long as they don’t witness conflict.
Demographers struggle to measure unintended fertility.
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It’s very difficult to measure whether a conception was intended. But those data are vital to understanding women’s choices.
Stories take children on imaginary adventures.
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Reading styles vary in effectiveness. Here are six things you can do, based on research, to help your child get the most out of shared reading.
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Make maths more fun with these tips
Conversations about gender and stereotypes can start at home, while playing in the sandpit.
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Rigid gender roles and stereotypes are key drivers of violence against women. So let’s challenge these by starting young.
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Forget the “summer slide” here’s how you can help your child learn more over the summer holidays.
The storm over school funding continues, and at its centre, how best to decide who pays.
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Estimating parents’ capacity to contribute to their children’s schooling is both vital and politically sensitive. Schools with well-off parents get much less funding from government.
Math in yarn.
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In this professor’s class, there are no calculators. Instead, students learn advanced math by talking, drawing pictures, playing with beach balls – and knitting.
Failure is a gift disguised as a bad experience.
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Encouraging and supporting failure can make your child more resilient, better able to cope and help them grow.
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The number of UK babies being born to surrogate mothers has risen by 255% in the past six years.
In 2017, the US dropped to 1.76 children per woman.
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The number of births in the US is down 2 percent. That pops the country’s ‘fertility bubble’ – and brings numbers closer in line with peer countries.
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Babies would rather listen to each other than to their parents’ babytalk, according to new research.
Tony Blair visiting a children’s centre in Southampton in 2003.
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Sure Start centres are shutting or becoming ‘hubs’, but will they still provide the services which local families value and need?