Dangers of alcohol not a priority for parents
One in three parents do not talk to their children about the dangers of alcohol and are more concerned about unwanted pregnancies, car accidents and drugs, survey finds
Playing it too safe?
Parents banned from sports days, children prevented from flying kites, three-legged races outlawed. Health and safety gone mad, or media hysteria, asks Emine Saner
A dad from day one
Khaled Diab: No argument against a father's presence in the delivery room will convince me that I should not have witnessed my son's birth
The human cost of screening for Down’s
Tom Shakespeare: We must provide better information about Down's syndrome to help inform the traumatic decisions behind the statistics
Women need choice, not caesareans
Belinda Phipps: Figures show the NHS's Maternity Matters programme is failing. Empowered mothers would choose fewer medicalised births
The baby maker
Dr Xiao-Ping Zhai has helped hundreds of infertile women get pregnant, using acupuncture, herbs and boiled twigs
The truth about sleeping with baby
Sarah Boseley: has the research on mothers co-sleeping with their babies been badly misinterpreted?
‘Sleeping with my baby (maybe) saved his life’
Emily Wilson: bedsharing with my baby felt calm and natural
Parenting qualifications for young people recognised
Courses taken at approved training centres, which feature nutrition and citizenship, now roughly equivalent to a GCSE
‘I encourage women struggling with HIV to learn to be independent’
World Aids Day: Widowed at the age of 25, Mary Amuge has gone through some hard times raising five children alone in Katine, while living with HIV. Antiretroviral therapy has given her a new lease of life, but it is the creation of village savings and loans associations that is helping her to manage her money and afford more food