Family

One in four Australian “dual-earner” families now has a female as its major breadwinner, a new report has found. The research shows that the number of Aussie households where women earn more than their partners has increased by 140,000 in the past 10 years. Tasmania is leading the way, with 35 per cent of women […]

Academy Award-winning actress Natalie Portman has admitted she overlooked the most important and hardest role of her life – being a mother. The busy Black Swan actress, who started dancing at 4, scored her first movie role at 13 and completed a Harvard psychology degree while working as an actress at 23, says the hardest […]

Don’t have the money for Disneyland? Don’t worry, because the family fun is just as intense on Sentosa Island in Singapore – and it’s a lot lighter on the purse. Check out these adventures, all within a free bus ride of Shangri-La’s Rasa Sentosa Resort. With wave machines, downhill toboggans and Universal Studios, Sentosa Island […]

Don’t have the money for Disneyland? Don’t worry, because the family fun is just as intense on Sentosa Island in Singapore – and it’s a lot lighter on the purse. Check out these adventures, all within a free bus ride of Shangri-La’s Rasa Sentosa Resort. With wave machines, downhill toboggans and Universal Studios, Sentosa Island […]

Ask Fleur Shaw-Jones how many children she has and she’ll tell you: three. But only one child shares her home. Her first two babies, twins, died minutes after they were born in 2010. Here, she explains the special place they will always have in her life. Is he your first? It is a benign and […]

The Prime Minister’s daughter, Jessica Rudd, and Tony Abbott’s youngest girls Frances and Bridget, have each become an important part of the election campaign, appearing by each of their fathers’ sides at events and speaking out in support of their respective “daggy” dads. We know they love and support their father, but in this month’s […]

Quickly cool a bowl of soup for a toddler by breaking a slice of frozen bread into it. As the bread defrosts, it cools the soup and adds bulk to the meal.

A backpack filled with toys, books and snacks and hung from the front seat of your car is a great way to entertain children on long journeys. It’s easily accessible and will keep them amused for ages.

Advances in fertility science have left Australian laws struggling to keep up with a quiet revolution that’s taking place in the suburbs. In this, the first of a series of articles on the lengths Australian are going to to have children, Emily Brooks meets Adrian, the gay father of “twiblings” born on the same day […]

Any mum will tell you it’s hard to get a decent photograph of your toddler, but some mums are so determined to capture the moment they are spending up to $3000 on a personal “photo coach”. Mother-of-two Rohi Mirza Pandya, 40, from New York, has enlisted the help of photo coach Alethea Cheng Fitzpatrick who […]