‘I felt ungrateful to let my fertility wither on the vine’
The writer was happy as a mother of one, but when she had her fertility tested in midlife, things weren’t quite so straightforward.
Relationships
Why is everyone ‘sober-ish’ all of a sudden?
More people are entering the holidays with a mindful relationship with alcohol. It turns out this isn’t a total drag.
What having prostate cancer taught me about sex
I underwent chemical castration as part of my treatment plan. It ended my marriage and left me certain I would live without intimacy, but against the odds I restored my sexuality.
If you think your baby has signs of autism or ADHD, read this
Parents beware. Standard cognitive tests can’t pick up ADHD and autism in infancy, a new study finds, despite a proliferation of early diagnosis and support programs.
ADHD kids treated as ‘poor cousins’ of those with autism
Parents of children with ADHD who have needs similar to children diagnosed with autism can feel rightly aggrieved about how the NDIS has operated to date.
Are teens worried about social media bans? Let’s text them to find out
Should we be concerned about a cataclysmic long-term impact on the cognitive functioning of doomscrollers? Try tearing your kids away from the screen to ask what they think.
Middle-aged women exercise more than their daughters
New research from the UK shows middle-aged women prioritise their health after menopause. But they still lag men, the study shows.
‘I thought my partner was hiding something from me. The truth was so much worse’
What do you do when the man you love is diagnosed, at just 46, with dementia? For a long time Louise Bryant thought the answer was silence. But suddenly, that all changed.
‘Eighty is a weird land to be in’: Michael Palin is still looking on the bright side of life
He’s seen up close how people live around the world. So how is the Monty Python star faring at 81?
A 12-year-old’s journey into the world of weight-loss drugs
A mother in the US found success with a weight-loss drug after a lifelong battle. Noticing her daughter start down the same path, she decided to have her try semaglutide.
‘Tis the season for splitting up — could we be next?’
As the kids get older The Chap and I are increasingly living separate lives, publicly. All marriages evolve. The key is to evolve with them
As STI cases rise, at-home tests promise speed, privacy
Women will soon be able to test themselves for one of the most commonly reported communicable disease in Australia as cases surge.
The ‘silent global pandemic’ that will undermine healthcare systems and food safety
If the danger of drug-resistant superbugs is not addressed there could be a return to the medical dark ages, where a superficial scratch could be life-threatening.
You text each other a lot. Is it an emotional affair?
A connection can become inappropriately intimate, even when it isn’t sexual.
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.
‘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.
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