Family

It's not the women getting the short end of the stick.

According to news reports, recent snowfalls led the head of the Jo Richardson Community School to decree that pupils were not allowed to have snowball fights, nor were they even allowed to touch the snow.

Ideally, then, kids will be ‘normal’: hard workers and prudent consumers, who don’t see themselves as better than others.

College professors are realizing that their students don't know how to do anything beyond hooking up.

And can schools do more to compensate, perhaps preventing violence?

A natal male with all his equipment breastfed his partner’s baby, experts report.

What's behind this inconsistency?

Has culture bought into a lie about truly romantic love?

Weaning babies from dummies and bottles is best started early, rather than letting it become an ingrained habit.

Do parents know how to raise children to be well-adjusted members of society?

The book selections schoolchildren are reading seem to suggest this might be the case.

Does the bended-knee proposal give a distorted view of marriage?

‘Have a good time’ is not a recipe for happiness.

"'It's kind of a let down, 5th grader Angelina Lubo said. 'At least I could still spend time with my dad.'"

Are we denying them the ability to perform one of their greatest desires well?

Our study found that at the ages of six to seven, which is just after the time children start school, 14% of Australian children had noticeably high levels of emotional problems.

A simple test for the age of consent and one-night stands.

Will maturity come by extending childhood?

Czech sociologist Dana Hamplova provides an answer with results from a European study of mothers with children under three.

A few simple ways in which parents can reclaim common sense in the tech-obsessed world.

As a radical feminist and lesbian academic, Dr Klein’s views are not mainstream. Yet any reader will recognise that they are common-sense, based on women’s concrete experiences.

Nearly one third of modern marriages in the US now begin online - but that's not the whole story.

The discussion as to whether child sex dolls and child androids can reduce pedophilia offers an indication as to which philosophy reigns in America today.

What kind of society creates a vulnerability to loneliness? The answer seems obvious, but admitting it runs against the grain.

Today’s men – whether they be current or future fathers – have been inundated with messages that they are unnecessary, ineffective, and even predatory at times.

An underlying theme in these calls for regulating homeschoolers is that parents can’t be trusted and government knows best.

Education is not a question of “rights” to be imposed by the state, but of the “freedom” of parents to choose the sort of education that they believe is best for their children…

A Canadian doctor argues that the flu may hit men worse than women.