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The cost of raising kids is no longer shrinking when children turn 18. Instead, it’s dragging on and on and on, for upwards of an additional decade.

Parenting costs once ended when a child turned 18. Not any more

Everyone says that raising kids is expensive, but the costs are no longer shrinking when they become adults, with expenses extending for upwards of an extra decade.

  • Victoria Devine

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Parent WhatsApp groups

Helicopter parents have become WhatsApp warriors. Schools are in the crossfire

The source of truth about school business was once the printed newsletter, or parent-teacher night. Now, there’s the parent WhatsApp chat.

  • Christopher Harris

Help! The kid next door is constantly kicking a ball against our shared fence

The annoyance can break your brain – but our Modern Guru has found a solution.

  • Danny Katz
Australian-Korean adoptees have been calling for a national inquiry into what authorities knew about the ethical and legal issues plaguing the Eastern Social Welfare Society, which facilitated thousands of adoptions to Australia.

Did Australia know? South Korean adoptees demand answers over global scandal

Labor has promised, if re-elected, to investigate concerns about the program that facilitated thousands of adoptions to Australia.

  • Lisa Visentin
In an undated police handout, a bedroom at a home at 2 Blake Street in Waterbury, Conn. Police say a man was held captive for two decades in the home.

‘He saved himself’: Firefighter rescues man held captive for decades until he set his room on fire

In the ambulance, an emergency worker commented on the overpowering smell. The patient said it had been more than a year since he had been permitted to shower.

  • Sarah Maslin Nir
Rows of babies waiting for overseas adoption in 1984 at the Angel Babies’ Home orphanage.

Josie was handed two Korean toddlers at the airport. They sobbed ‘mummy’ the whole way to Australia

The former social worker says she is horrified by what she was asked to do in 1984 and is calling for an inquiry into Australia’s overseas adoption practices.

  • Lisa Visentin
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Stephen Graham as Eddie Miller and Owen Cooper as his son Jamie in Adolescence. The series illustrates how vulnerable young boys can be when they fall under the influence of toxic masculinity.

Adolescence is compelling, but here’s what it gets wrong

This most talked-about British drama raises very important questions, but it also turns a blind eye to uncomfortable truths.

  • Parnell Palme McGuinness
Chappell Roan’s remarks about parenthood have certainly gotten people talking, but are they fair?

Chappell Roan says parenthood is ‘hell’. Here’s what the experts say

The pop star’s comments have triggered a major online debate, angering some parents while others nod in agreement. Now, experts weigh in on the realities of parenthood.

  • Nell Geraets
Working from home has enabled a generation of men to be better fathers.

I was an absent father until WFH changed everything

For generations, fatherhood was a side hustle crammed into weekends and hurried bedtimes. But over the past few years, we’ve seen something radical: a model of fatherhood grounded not in absence but in presence.

  • David Halliday
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

Original URL: https://www.theage.com.au/topic/parenting-60c