A dad with a baby due in under a month seeks options after being denied family leave at work.
A parent of under-10s weighs quitting travel sports and whether families can step back once committed.
A family asks for advice on supporting a hypersensitive, highly emotional 4-year-old while everyone is struggling.
Stay-at-home parents compare the financial realities and tradeoffs that make one-income parenting possible.
A practical safety discussion on the age and circumstances for leaving sleeping children home alone.
Parents discuss when to tell children about an upcoming vacation, balancing anticipation against repeated questions.
Camilla Cavendish links falling birth rates to housing costs, dating apps, climate fears and work’s “greedy jobs.”
The author of Generation Maybe, Camilla Cavendish, explains the many reasons people are having fewer children, from dating apps to unaffordable housing and the climate crisis Generation Maybe is the most tactful possible title for Camilla Cavendish’s bracing new book – because the trend she’s describing is anything but a “maybe”. “The wave of childlessness that is sweeping the globe is extraordinary,” she writes. It’s in the UK, where the fertility rate hit 1.39 children per woman in 2025 , the…
A candid account of how checking loved ones’ location data can turn safety reassurance into compulsive anxiety.
When my loved ones are on the move, I can’t rest until I know they’ve got from A to B safely. How I long for the ignorance of the olden days I’ll call it compassionate surveillance. It’s what I do when I’m worried about a loved one who is on the move. I’m not sure it’s a good thing. Be they travelling by plane, train or automobile, I will keep tabs on them. I can’t help myself. If my daughters – who are highly competent grownups – make a long car journey, by means of some smartphone hocus-pocus…
Reports Lena Dunham’s first child via surrogate after endometriosis and a hysterectomy at 31.
Writer and actor, 40, had long struggled with endometriosis before undergoing total hysterectomy at age 31 Lena Dunham has welcomed her first child with her husband, Luis Felber, via surrogate. The 40-year-old writer and actor, known for her creation of and role in the HBO television series Girls, revealed her daughter’s birth in a Vogue op-ed published on Wednesday. Continue reading...
Scientists reconstructed videos from the brain activity of mice, producing 10-second clips based only on signals from neurons in the visual cortex. The breakthrough could help reveal how the brain reshapes what we see before it becomes our perception of reality.