My daughter’s private school only gives away a very few places to families on low incomes. My daughter was lucky enough to be given a place when she started year one. Even with the greatly reduced fees, I was still pushing uphill to come up with the money and her uniform costs. When she was […]

By Sandra White In 1987, cancer sufferer Wayne Kuhn froze his sperm — now it’s delivered him a baby daughter. Little Elouise Kuhn was in such a hurry to get her name in the record books she arrived eight days early — 21 years after her dad’s sperm had been frozen! With sperm having an […]

A few years ago, a friend and I decided to move to the UK for a year or two. We gave ourselves 18 months to save, during which time I met a guy in my hometown Brisbane, Alan, and fell for him really hard. I told Alan from the beginning I was planning to go […]

By Jacqui Lang Tamara Broome, the Adelaide woman who, famously, was jailed in the US because of her love for the teenager she met online, is at last in the arms of her young American. “We couldn’t be happier,” sighs Tamara, 32, nuzzled up to tall, lanky John Martini, 14 years her junior. “We’ve wanted […]

I met John at a party. I was sitting down because I’d pulled my Achilles tendon in a skiing accident, so while everyone else was standing around, drinking, dancing and socialising, I was lonely. John came right over and started chatting. He was lovely. He told me that he worked as an occupational therapist, helping […]

By Alison Crombie Pictures: Regine Mahaux/Kristian Dowling/Getty Images Pregnant Thomas Beatie shares his excitement at giving birth to a little girl, and being a father… Sex-change patient Thomas Beatie hit the headlines when he revealed his pregnancy to the world. Thomas, 34, from the north-west US state of Oregon, was born a woman and formerly […]

My wife Marian and I have been married for almost 10 years now. When we first met, she said she loved my creative side. But she doesn’t know how far my ‘creativity’ goes. Marian works reasonably long hours and most nights she plays netball at a sports centre only one suburb away. What she doesn’t […]

Filled with a desire to help childless couples, Jackie has borne an amazing 11 babies. As soon as you walk into Jackie Smith’s house, it’s clear you’re in a family home. Toys and children’s DVDs are stacked in a corner, and smiling faces beam out from pictures on the mantelpiece and walls. But while you […]

Having always been close to my older brother Sean, the day I looked forward to the most in my life was the day he was due to arrive home from his long working holiday in the UK. I’d only been 17 when he’d left, so now I was almost 20 we would get to do […]