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Dreams of being a Pinterest mum are overrated. Here's why.

Jaxon Buell was not expected to reach his first birthday. While the family celebrate their joy has been tainted with cruel online comments.

New Zealand fertility specialist on virgin births.

Women who have never been in a relationship are paying thousands of dollars to get pregnant.

Over a third of parents have never spoken with their children about sex, a survey reveals.

Is peace merely the absence of conflict? Jill Goldson discusses how we find it in a seemingly peace-deprived world.

Un-cool mums know there are more important things in life than their own egos, writes Verity Johnson.

A child abuse expert says she is "cautiously optimistic" that the latest review of Child, Youth and Family will finally lead to big changes.

Once children would sit at the table and simply eat whatever was put in front of them. These days? It's a bit different.

When it came to others' children, I was a supermarket tisk-tisker, an in-flight smirker, a cafe-going eye roller. Then I had my own kids.

A study found that teens can juggle lots of information at a high speed meaning they make the fewest slips when fibbing.

We all hope our children will surpass us one day. But you don't want it to happen while they're still at primary school, writes Matt Heath.

Shelly Cawley slipped into a coma during childbirth. Her family was told it was time to say goodbye. And then she heard her newborn baby cry.

Can you consider yourself a parent without having or adopting children of your own?

Rising numbers of pre-school children are being allowed to play with tablet computers and watch TV in bed, research shows.

Forget rugby club boozers, it turns out that stressed mums are the latest drunken hell-raisers - swapping tea after school for a glass (or three) of wine.

Cate Blanchett, the new face of Armani, talks neurolinguistics, marital compatibility and clothes with Lisa Armstrong.

Trichotillomania is a body-focused disorder characterised by the compulsion to pull out your hair. If you love a Trich sufferer, it can be frustrating.

The more I get the "be grateful" comments the more I feel like I can't talk about the hard parts of parenting, or the things I'm struggling with, says Emily Writes.

Actress Kim Cattrall has divided public opinion after insisting she still considers herself a mother despite not having any children of her own.

Parents with four or more children were found to be the most satisfied of all the groups because the family provided a large support network and they were "rarely bored."

More than half of mums and dads spend more than 40 hours a year trying to keep up with the latest school curriculum, research found.

Infants born at 25 to 28 weeks also showed major improvement in survival without significant disease or disability.

Both my kids have a mean perfectionist streak; I sometimes fear they are going to fire me, writes Deborah Hill Cone. We need to remember that mistakes are okay.

Society has "gone too far" with hygiene, and parents should expose children to bugs and different foods as babies, a leading scientist says.