maternal health services must do more to help them get involved
Including men in maternal healthcare is good for families, research has found internationally. Men can be involved in maternal...
Category : PARENTHOOD
Family meals are good for the grown-ups, too, not just the kids
For all the parents feeling exhausted by the cooking, cleaning and planning of a million meals during the pandemic,...
Health systems rush to use tech to tackle the coronavirus: A roundup of provider news 2020
Last New Year’s Eve, the first COVID-19 case was reported in Wuhan China. Since then the virus has spread all...
Making surrogacy legal would violate children’s rights
The current debate about commercial surrogacy has focused on the competing needs of couples or individuals desperate to have...
What do parents fear? Unwrapping the bubble-wrap generation
We hear so much these days about fearful parents who “bubble-wrap” their children. So-called “helicopter parents” try to protect...
Spying on your kid’s phone with Teensafe will only undermine trust
There is a growing market in software that can be used by parents to track their child’s mobile phone...
People who don’t want kids deserve respect for their choice
A conversation about the merits or otherwise of choosing not to have kids has been simmering away since Pope...
Declining sperm quality in older men puts the issue at the centre of fertility debate
We tend to think of women’s declining fertility as being the reason older couples can struggle to conceive. But,...
Forget freezing sperm, it’s time for men to take responsibility for the foreplay of fatherhood
The right of a woman to control her fertility is at the very heart of feminist politics. It’s a...
Do you share more genes with your mother or your father?
Many of your relatives probably have an answer to the question of whether you are more your mother or...