This week I discovered the two questions that can unlock a snapshot of someone’s life

I have joined my club, West Brom, in calling up our older season ticket holders to see how they are getting on. It is a fascinating and moving experience, writes Guardian columnist Adrian Chiles

‘Social mothers’: the women who helped a Brazilian city halve its child death rate

Sobral had one of Brazil’s highest infant mortality rates, but a groundbreaking health scheme has drastically reduced its number of child deaths

How do I know the world has turned upside down? My football ground is now a maternity clinic

West Brom has been given over to postnatal care – and it turns out it’s a perfect fit. This season, for the first time, it’s babies rather than fans who are doing the crying

I’m a GP who got coronavirus because I had no PPE. I feel guilty but also angry

We were left unprotected and felt like we were going into a battlefield. I don’t think our profession will ever be the same

My dad said I wasn’t black enough. At last, I know what he meant

I’m mixed race and ‘culturally white’, and seemed to be a disappointment to my father – but we just weren’t close

Which novels or memoirs will help prepare me for motherhood?

Francesca Segal recommends literary explorations of new emotional territory

The Easy Bit review – how men get to grips with IVF

This well-intentioned documentary about the first step in fertility treatment has moments of humour but is too emotionally hectoring

Farewell workplace burnout: will coronavirus slow the manic pace of our modern lives?

Here’s hoping the pandemic forces a rethink of our obsession with work and the culture of busyness

I am extremely attracted to my brother-in-law – and now we’re locked down together

My family is house-sharing with my husband’s brother during the pandemic. I’m worried our mutual attraction could go too far

Climbing the walls? How to cope as a family when you can’t escape each other

Our advice columnist on how to handle everything from clashes in parenting styles to elderly parents in denial