Motor neurone disease: a cruel end to a 50-year love affair
Actor Joss Ackland tells Susan Greenwood about his wife's death from motor neurone disease, and why he decided to publish her frank diaries about their life together
‘What am I to say to them?’
Sarah Gabriel talks to Louise Carpenter about the gene mutation and cancer that turned her world upside down
Family under the microscope
Internet porn affects children more and more
Upfront: Bucking the IVF stats
You can move heaven and earth to get pregnant, but ultimately what your body does is out of your hands
Our recession baby boom
Nicholas Lezard: With sales of condoms down, and of pregnancy supplements up, will the birth rate soar despite the dire financial situation?
Oliver James: Family under the microscope
Your son may be daft but he's probably fine. The alarming rate of distress among 15-year-old girls, meanwhile, affects all classes
A painful lecture on labour
Maureen Freely: Denis Walsh may be right that epidurals bring their own risks, but he shouldn't tell mothers about the moral value of pain
It’s good for women to suffer the pain of a natural birth, says medical chief
Professor: mother and child would benefit if 'epidural epidemic' gave way to yoga and hypnosis