Parenting
Why moving to a better neighbourhood can actually be bad for your kids
A new study has found that moving in childhood can have significant mental health impacts.
- by Ellen Barry
Latest
A two-year-old greets the sun, and lifts us into a new day
Our two-year-old grandson wakes and stands in his cot. He separates the slats of the blind with his fingers and looks out into the winter morning.
- by Julie Perrin
From graveyards to orange juice labels, baby naming is getting creative
John, William, Mary, Elizabeth: There was a simple formula for naming children in the Western world from the 17th to early 19th centuries. Not anymore.
- by Shona Hendley
What are Australian men talking about in therapy?
From toxic masculinity to parenting issues, these are the six most common topics men are bringing to the therapy room.
- by Staff Writer
My mother’s anxieties about something happening were always there. Now I know why
A tragic accident would shape my mother’s life – and impact my own a generation later.
- by Alice Robinson
‘Every serving of grief is a full serve’: The challenge of losing a twin in utero
It’s a loss that triggers contradictory emotions: how to square the happiness that one survived with an enduring sadness that the other didn’t?
- by Shelley Eves
Exclusive
Baby formula
‘My milk dried up’: Assistant minister says mums who formula feed need support
Assistant Health Minister Ged Kearney says it’s important to continue promoting the message that breastfeeding gives babies the best start in life, but it’s not easy for everyone.
- by Jewel Topsfield
Opinion
Pregnancy
‘This is your fault’: The doctor’s words that left me with PTSD
It’s only now – 24 years later – that I am able to discuss it, and I still cry. Birth trauma is still vastly overlooked, but its impacts can last a lifetime.
- by Beth Knights
‘Horrifying’: Alarm over NSW’s child protection failures
A scathing report by the NSW Ombudsman has raised a raft of concerns about children in care.
- by Amber Schultz
Help! My daughter is starting to remind me of myself
What are children if not divine vengeance?
- by James Colley
Most fathers-in-law would be helping with the shed. I’m not that noble
Forget the nail belt, I’m off to drink with the wealthy.
- by Anson Cameron