What I learned from coming in last place in a triathlon
I didn’t want my 16-year-old son to see his dad as the ultimate loser. But maybe not giving up was a more important lesson.
Relationships
‘Don’t let abusers get victim’s super pay’
Super industry backs moves to stop DV perpetrators benefiting financially from the death of their partners, following revelations an abuser was awarded a $65,000 payout when his wife took her own life.
The importance of being 50
The late-40s/early-50s is a time to reassess where you’re at in relationships and in life. The milestone birthday is also key for business owners. How does turning 50 redefine Australian business and our property decisions?
Are young people really having less sex?
Celebrities like Lenny Kravitz and Julia Fox are calling timeout on having sex but there’s a cohort of young people who are all too willing to join the celibacy movement.
Endure, submit, succumb: the appalling inequality of sexual pleasure
Women of a certain age have been conditioned to expect that men are clueless about the magic button. Read this ladies, then show it to your underperforming partner. Thank me later in the comments.
So is yours the typical Australian family?
Just what is the typical Australian family? A new report finds family structures are increasingly diverse, and governments aren’t keeping up with the change.
Magic number: why do people hit this age, and decide to separate?
The late forties and early fifties are turbulent years for anyone in the Australian life-cycle. But what is it about this particular birthday that makes people rethink their marriages?
The most damaging screen to kids’ development isn’t smartphones
Even if it’s simply running in the background in a room, TV can be damaging for children.
Gen Z gloom means no baby boom
If we’re not in a baby drought now, we soon may be, experts warn, unless Gen Z finds its mojo.
Are the rich about to start breeding superbabies?
A startup is enabling prospective parents to screen their embryos for future health risks. ‘Your genetics is a lottery,’ says founder Noor Siddiqui, ‘why don’t we try to make it a little more fair?’
Porn is to blame for the rise of this ghastly practice
I’m guessing that at no other time in the span of human sexuality has such a shocking act featured so heavily in the bedroom.
How often should couples be having sex?
The answer to sexual satisfaction in long-term relationships is complicated – and revealing. And yes, there is a magic number.
How modern love is altering our brains
New technology is changing romance, and it’s impacting not just our hearts, but our heads. Here, a neuroscientist discusses how modern love is changing the dating landscape in our brains.
Fertility rates are plummeting — fortunately, we have migrants
Australia’s fertility rate today is half what it was at the peakof the baby boom, with single-child households and childlessness more socially acceptable options now than a generation ago.
Combing through the causes of postpartum hair loss
Shedding light on this surprising, yet completely normal, side effect of childbirth, from minimising fall out to treatments for growth.
How Big Tech created the ‘anxious generation’
The revolution starts here: we’ve over-parented our kids – but let them run wild on social media. Now a growing movement of fed-up parents are fighting to keep kids off smartphones.
20 rules for raising kids in the age of the smartphone
Smartphones are poisoning our children’s minds, says Jonathan Haidt. But it’s not too late to arrest the damage and send the kids out to play.
How hard is it for a relationship counsellor to practise what she preaches?
I’ve had to acknowledge that being in a lifelong relationship with a soulmate hasn’t happened with me. It took a long time for me to go, actually, that’s not a failure.
Unions seek IVF, vasectomy leave
Workers could take paid leave for IVF treatment, vasectomy recovery and prostate or breast cancer screening under a new push for 10 days reproductive leave a year.
Nothing ‘false’ about my choice to be a stay-at-home mum
I turned my back on a legal career with a big law firm because I wanted to be home with my kids. If someone had offered me a heap of money to return to work when they were babies, I would have said ‘no thanks’.
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