Breastfeeding
Mummy wars
Confronting cover: Time shows mother breastfeeding 3-year-old
A startling Time magazine cover image of a mother breastfeeding her three-year-old son has sparked debate about the technique known as attachment parenting.
The modern-day quest for the elusive fairy good mother
Cosima Marriner Mothers and worrying go hand in hand, but today's mums take agonising about motherhood to new heights.
Young women keep their tops on, unlike their mothers' generation
Peter Munro THERE was a time when skin was tanned and love was free and bare breasts dotted the sand as far as the eye could see.
The key to trust
Finding the 'moral molecule'
Oliver Burkeman Paul Zak is a world expert on oxytocin, what he calls the 'moral molecule' that makes us good or evil. He tells Oliver Burkeman how hugging, massage and soppy movies could make us better people.
Battle lines
When parents go to war
The way we raise our children has become a source of conflict and competition among today's increasingly judgmental parents. Julia Llewellyn Smith reports.
Spring clean
Turn detox into a treat
Bronwyn McNulty Nutrients up, negativity down. How to get the most out of a health overhaul.
Real life
The myths of motherhood
Benison O'Reilly Striving for perfection does kids more harm than good, writes Benison O'Reilly.
No question, mother's milk lowers SIDS risk
Melissa Davey MOTHER of four Jacqui Soliman has spent more than four of the past six years breastfeeding. She has just stopped breastfeeding her 22-month-old daughter, Emily, and will continue to breastfeed 6.
Piffling paternity pay unfair on fathers
Adele Horin LABOR'S paid paternity leave plan has come under fire after Australia finished near the bottom of an international ranking of fairness in families.
Look what they've done to my son, ma
They're barely out of nappies but already little boys are being sexualised, writes Samantha Selinger-Morris.
Domestic harmony
Gay parents are more equal than others
Adele Horin ALISON RUTHERFORD is a little surprised that so many women she meets complain about their husbands' ineptness around the house.
My baby was given to the wrong mum
Heath Aston A HOSPITAL has apologised to a mother after giving her baby to the wrong woman for breastfeeding.
World-first trial
'Love drug' may help mums bond to babies
Danielle Teutsch A hormone nasal spray may help mothers bond better with their babies.
School's in for dads
Steve Dow The birth of a child is one of life's great joys, but babies don't come with an instruction manual. Some dads are welcoming a helping hand.
