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.
Families
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?’
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.
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.
Is the nuclear family disappearing?
Social fabric is critical in urban design as we look to service some big demographic shifts.
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.
‘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?
Two women, a DNA test and the gift of finally knowing Dad
Two girls are born in different states, three years apart. More than half a century later, they ask for the same birthday present. What follows will change their lives.
‘We’ve created a new family’
When you take seniors isolated from family and children craving a grandparent’s devotion, wonderful things can happen.
Long recovery after love sours
Even seven years after separating, the emotional wellbeing of men and women in has not fully recovered.
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