Families come in all shapes and sizes…as gay partners Brett and Tony prove. They’ve just become dads to four bouncing baby boys! It’s a pure “pinch me, is this really happening?” moment. Two sets of twins – all boys – sleeping soundly, are being lovingly held by their totally besotted dads. Suddenly, the drowsy silence […]

For as far back as I can remember, I’ve known I want to adopt children rather than have my own. I’ve always been careful to mention this to boyfriends, rather than hiding it from them. Before I married my husband I tried on several occasions to warn him about this, but he always cut me […]

Many of the enquiries I get as an Agony Aunt are from people eaten-up with jealousy over what they perceive to be the success other people are experiencing, unable to recognise what they see on the surface might bear little relation to the reality. Here’s how to turn your jealousy or envy into a positive […]

During her four years behind bars, the woman dubbed “Foxy Knoxy” kept a journal that’s now worth millions. As Amanda Knox’s jubilant family hung out the Welcome Home signs and global media began scrambling for her exclusive story, details emerged of a secret prison diary kept by the US student during her four-year ordeal in […]

He’s 90, she’s 86… they’re newlyweds! This loved-up couple couldn’t wait to become husband and wife! When Woman’s Day met lovebirds Jean Stewart and John Farquharson in January this year, the octogenarians from Townsville, Queensland, had just become engaged after meeting in a nursing home two years previously. Determined to make their union official, the […]

Jeanne and Chester Szuber’s daughter Patti died tragically and ended up saving her father’s life. As Chester Szuber’s heart beats, he knows how lucky he is. The heart that pulses inside his chest is like no other in the entire human race – it once belonged to his daughter Patti. Seventeen years ago, Chester, known […]

The common dread swept over me when I received the invitation in the mail for my 20 year high school reunion. “You have to go!” my teenage daughter Chelsy giggled when I rolled my eyes. There didn’t seem much point, I had only kept in contact with a handful of friends since high school. I […]

Jeni and Ray Bonell have just welcomed their 15th child to the world – and they’re not planning to stop there. The Queensland couple tell Woman’s Day why…. When paying a visit to the Bonell family’s Toowoomba home, you’d be forgiven for hesitating before knocking gingerly at their front door. You just don’t know what […]

A single mattress, a doona and Donald Duck… As these shock photographs reveal, Schapelle Corby has created a strangely cosy world within Bali’s Kerobokan Prison. The mountain of stuffed toys and sheets covered in love hearts may make it look like a teenage girl’s overcrowded bedroom, but this is the Balinese prison cell that Schapelle […]

I have been with the same man for thirty-one years and married to him for ten years. We have two grown-up children together and three grandchildren. In our years together he has had two affairs that I know of and at these times I left but went back for the family. This was earlier on […]