Demography is destiny
Women receive cold-calls about family planning and universities asked to offer ‘love courses’ to tackle demographic crisis
Europe’s most populous country sees fertility rates fall below crucial threshold of 1.4
Alejandro Zambra explores the ups and downs of fatherhood in this collection of essays, poems and stories
Done the wrong way, it can have awkward effects
A sense of the challenges ahead mean primary and secondary schoolchildren are eager for financial literacy
Currently the government only permits heterosexual, married women to undergo treatment
Commenters discuss the latest figures on the male education deficit — join the debate
This is not just an issue for parents — employers need to be part of the solution
Parents having two babies at once face financial hit of at least £20,000 in additional costs, according to Twins Trust report
Policies that actually work trust local communities and focus on getting the fundamentals right
Our systems for figuring out childcare have not caught up with an egalitarian society
The increased isolation many feel is a symptom of a larger problem
Table manners aren’t getting ‘worse’, but they’re definitely changing
It is harder now to be both. We ask way more of each other than we once did
JD Vance’s attack on people without kids flies in the face of demographic reality
Parents have been indoctrinated to think that buying child-specific designs is a question of survival. It’s not
There is passion — and humour — throughout this novel about a same-sex marriage in its final throes but it is a dark tale of domestic anguish
The arrangement in which children of separated couples stay in the family home with one parent, before the other swaps in, is taking off
Inside the historic trial that convicted the parents of a school shooter
Due to my footballer husband’s income our house is listed in his sole name and I worry what could happen if we divorce
Employers are often less flexible with staff who need to care for older children
Parents will stop at nothing to help their children celebrate the end of exam season
Make sure you know the etiquette if you keep tabs on friends and family
‘We have an older generation often rattling around in large properties filled by possessions rather than people’
