Sex lessons at home

Leader: Beverley Hughes, the new children and families minister, was right this week in a Guardian interview to urge parents to become more involved in sex education with their children to reduce unwanted teenage pregnancies.

The cure for colic

When Oliver James's newborn son got colic, he and his wife prepared themselves for the horror of sleepless nights. Then they attended a breastfeeding clinic ...

A boy like Dan

Danny Mardell's world was turned upside down when his first son was born with Down's syndrome. But, as his ghost writer Sally Weale records in Danny's Challenge, published tomorrow, the shock and shame of those first few months gradually gave way to acceptance - and love.

Invasion of the pregnant dads

Books on fatherhood used to be few and far between - but not any more. Nicholas Lezard takes a look at the good, the bad, and the downright mawkish.