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Yellow Wiggle Tsehay Hawkins with mum Robyn.

‘It was surreal’: Yellow Wiggle Tsehay Hawkins’ search for her birth parents

The Wiggles’ youngest member opens up about her return to her birthplace in Ethiopia for the first time ever last year.

  • Lauren Ironmonger

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For Chae Ryan, 33, the search for his Korean identity has been a harrowing journey. The South Korean agency that facilitated his adoption to Australia in 1991 is now at the centre of damning inquiry into widespread fraud and malpractice in the country’s adoption system.

‘I believed I was an orphan’: Australians caught up in global adoption scandal

For Chae Ryan, the search for his identity has been a harrowing experience. He’s not the only one.

  • Lisa Visentin
Maxie Allen was arrested after complaining about his daughter’s school on WhatsApp.

British parents arrested after complaining about daughter’s school on WhatsApp

Maxie Allen and Rosalind Levine were reportedly detained by six officers in front of their three-year-old daughter after posting in a parent group chat.

  • Will Bolton
Owen Cooper as Jamie Miller in the four-part drama Adolescence.

Adolescence has gripped parents, but our debates are missing a crucial thread

Add misogynistic influencers to the mix of feelings of inadequacy and hopelessness, and a growing wealth gap, and you have most of the ingredients for gendered violence.

  • Sonia Orchard
Adolescence highlights a concern most parents have today: what is my child being exposed to online?

The adults in Adolescence are clueless. Here’s how to do better

Beyond the horrific crime committed, the most shocking aspect of Netflix’s Adolescence is the lack of understanding most of the adults demonstrate of the online world. Here’s how to engage with your teen – and why it’s so important.

  • Nell Geraets
Owen Cooper plays Jamie Miller, who is arrested for murder, in the Netflix drama Adolescence.

Adolescence is heartbreaking and brilliant. But it has one crucial flaw

This brave and impressive Netflix show reminds us that the voices and attitudes we allow to be loudest in our children’s lives have real and often devastating consequences.

  • Steve Biddulph
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Robyn Holland tracks her 95-year-old stepmother Val Harvey using the FindMy app on their iPhones for added peace of mind.

Why tracking your parents is about to be the next big thing

While most tracking app users are antsy parents who keep tabs on their kids, adult children tracking elderly parents could be the next big thing.

  • Cindy Yin
Tracey Hayman and baby Eddie.

‘At 42, I was racing against time’: pursuing motherhood despite the odds

A growing number of women are choosing to parent alone, but what are the realities of flying solo?

  • Dilvin Yasa
Alisha Burns decided to have a baby on her own when she turned 38. Many other single women are considering the same thing.

The day her father died, Alisha decided to have a baby on her own. It was a ‘lightbulb moment’

Does finding a partner need to come before starting a family? An increasing number of Australians, particularly Gen Z and Millennials, don’t think so.

  • Nell Geraets
Mum and Millie: there’s one thing the author wishes she could tell people who might “glance our way and feel a pang of sympathy”.

People might feel sympathy for Millie and me. There’s one thing I wish they knew

For a doting parent, the first weeks of school for a child with additional needs take on their own special focus.

  • Tatyana Leonov

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