Let’s talk about sex
As government experts recommend that all schoolchildren should receive sex education from the age of five, three people with a personal interest give their opinions. Interviews by Denis Campbell.
Sex lessons planned for all children
· Five-year-olds to get lessons on emotional life · Leak reveals teenagers' ignorance and confusion.
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.