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Rebecca Baker is a senior writer at The Advertiser and Sunday Mail in Adelaide, where her focus is on families and young people, issues relevant to everyday people and the trends affecting everyday life. As a storyteller she is passionate about sharing and celebrating the extraordinary efforts and successes of our mums, dads, kids, educators, sporting coaches, health practitioners and community stalwarts.

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Lifestyle

Tamara and Brendan Allender were teenage parents - she was in year 9, he was 15 and had just left school to start an apprenticeship. Almost 20 years on they are still together, married and and parents of three girls. Brylie, now 18, Indiana, now 13 and Frankie, now 5. Pictures: supplied

We’re teen parents and this is how we made it work

Tamara and Brendan were just schoolkids when they found out they were going to be parents. Two decades later, they’re a loving family of five.

Lifestyle

Mary Houghton who has endometriosis, with her partner, Callum MacPherson outside their home in Bowden, Thursday, Sept. 5, 2024. Picture: Matt Loxton

‘It’s really heartbreaking to watch’: Partner on girlfriend’s invisible illness

A young couple has given a candid insight into the devastating impact a disease that affects one in seven women can have on everything from sex life to embarrassing work moments.

Lifestyle

IVF bub Little Anahea was born via IVF; her parents attended a bulk bill clinic, after first forking out about $25,000 at a private clinic which failed to, give them a successful result. The little girl turns two next month. She is pictured with mum and dad, Lauren and David Halahala (correct spelling), Pictures supplied.

‘Infertility affects everybody’: SA IVF advocate pleas for bulk bill clinic

Infertility is on the rise and ‘doesn’t discriminate’ between income earned – it’s time for more affordable options such as bulk bill IVF clinics in every state, a leading fertility educator says.

SA News

‘It’s time to change narrative around men’

South Aussie men are being urged to step up as “inspirational role models to boys and young men” in a push to drown out toxic masculinity.

PollOpinion

ADELAIDE AUGUST 28, 2024Pembroke School. Football players are involved in a scandal , issuing fines to players who are involved with girls they dont deem attractive. Picture: Roy VanDerVegt

Hysterical anti-boys pile-on is a grave mistake

Violence against women is never OK but neither is writing off an entire generation over the actions of a few, writes Rebecca Whitfield-Baker.

PollLifestyle

Old-school or not, Baby Boomers arenÃt as different in the workplace to their Generation Z colleagues as you might think, new national research reveals. At the Kensington Hotel, Co-Owner Chris Eitzen, and 25 year old staff member, Bec Johnston, have a great working relationship. Research finds young people aren't the 'lazy, self-entitled' workers they are often stereotyped as. 31 August 2024. Picture: Dean Martin

Who are you calling ‘lazy and entitled’?

Is the stereotype of the younger generations being “lazy and entitled” and lacking the work ethic of their older co-workers fact or fiction? Here is what the research finds.

SA Weekend

Beth Wilson has spent almost two decades devoting her life to being a mum and wife. She's now stepping into a new role as a superstar tradesperson - plumber - in the making, recently taking out an apprentice plumbing award. She is two years through a plumbing apprenticeship at her husband Joel Wilson's Port Wakefield business, Joel Wilson Plumbing and Gas. Also pictured in some images are fellow tradies, he daughter Bligh, 17, and son Angus, 15. Beth is also a former Army reservist. Pictures: supplied

‘Out my comfort zone’: Realities of re-entering the workforce as SAHM mum

From stay-at-home mum to rising star plumbing apprentice, Beth Wilson has learned to laugh at most things, including being asked if it is “bring your wife to work day?”

Bush Summit

The sixth generation face of Australia’s smart farming revolution

Sixth generation farmer James Heaslip went to uni and worked as an auditor and business analyst before returning to the farm that has been in his family for 152 years.

Sport

Hayley Sands new pix for system (still not from Paris)

‘Crazy good’ Hayley’s top of SA’s table in Paralympic debut

The Adelaide interior designer has touched down in Paris ahead of her first Paralympics.

Lifestyle

US singer Lainey Wilson attends the 2024 Billboard Women in Music Awards at the YouTube theatre in Inglewood, California, March 6, 2024. (Photo by Michael Tran / AFP)

‘Didn’t see that coming’: Gen Z’s new obsession

Country acts are selling out in record time and Texan-style honky tonks are opening as a new generation of country music fans get their twang on. The reason country’s never been cooler.

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