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.
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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’.
Tummy tucks and IVF: how super cash is leaking away
Money is pouring out of superannuation – legally and illegally – as savers move to tap their savings long before retirement.
Super and IVF: Whose money is it, anyway?
An industry fund has broken ranks from the mantra that superannuation money is strictly for retirement by highlighting how its members can access early super for IVF treatment.
Pre-term births at highest in Top End
First Nations women in the Top End of the Northern Territory experience some of the highest rates of premature birth in the world, new research has found.
Billion dollar babies: Fertility clinics in growth phase
Fertility clinic revenues are outperforming the economy and set to climb, led by demand for egg freezing by women like Olympic triathlete Emma Jeffcoat.
IVF embryos a new divorce war front
Many IVF contracts do not include any provisions about what to do with frozen tissues in the event a relationship breaks down or one of the parents dies.
Is the nuclear family disappearing?
Social fabric is critical in urban design as we look to service some big demographic shifts.
Kids will pay the price in push for universal childcare
Advocates fail to acknowledge the evidence that daycare can harm young children’s development.
‘Frankly, it’s frightening’: our kids are far from all right
One in three of primary school children ‘feel bad for long periods of time,’ while 53 per cent of secondary school children ‘feel very stressed’. Something seismic is going on across the nation.
Frozen eggs ‘as good as fresh’
As more women than ever choose to freeze their eggs, advances in IVF techniques mean survival and fertility rates match those of fresh eggs.
Dismantle the gender stereotypes, not kids’ sex
When I was seven, I asked my mum if I could be a boy. I’m still not ultra-feminine, but I’m glad I wasn’t medicated to make my biological reality align with whatever inner experience I was having.
Birth a solo effort when midwife can’t be found
After three decades of shutdowns, the lack of maternity services in rural and remote Australia is now a national crisis, with babies increasingly being born without healthcare on hand
We’re mad to give our children smartphones
Only by barring under-16s from social media can we break this toxic cycle of anxiety, addiction and mental ill-health.
Folbigg’s freedom fighters who helped end 20 years in hell
In the end, like so many tragedies, a saga that spanned decades and inflicted so much grief was suddenly over. Kathleen Folbigg was free.
Erectile nasal spray to disrupt Viagra
Viagra revolutionised the treatment of erectile dysfunction, but a major issue with the drug – how long it takes to work – could be solved.
Sex? I’m over it
I’m ready for the freedom of a post-sex life and a new way to co-exist in my marriage. Greedy, I know.
‘Striking cognitive impact’: how Covid babies are different
Babies raised in the isolation of the pandemic had an unexpected start to life, and the results are showing. What happened – and will it be permanent?
Australia’s LGBTQ+ game changers
From actors and athletes to politicians, performers and beyond, we take a look at some of the most prominent LGBTQ+ game changers.
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