Family

If I had a dollar for every time someone asked me “Aren’t you going to try for a boy?”, well … I may not be a rich woman, but I’d have had a fair few free lunches by now. I’m the mother of two girls, and no, I am not going to ever try for […]

After nine years of hoping and dreaming for a child, and five years of IVF, TV journalist Leila McKinnon and her husband, Nine Network supremo David Gyngell, now have a beautiful red-haired baby boy to call their own, writes Michael Sheather. Leila McKinnon hadn’t considered the possibility of children before she met David, but by […]

Kylee Davie’s four-year-old daughter Veronika was born with Down syndrome, cerebral palsy and a congenital heart defect. She wasn’t supposed to live, let alone walk, but last month, Veronika strode into school for her first day with all the other kids. To celebrate World Down Syndrome Day on March 21, Kylee shares a letter she’s […]

Like it or loathe it, sometimes there’s no denying the power of social media. A US couple has been granted a Facebook miracle after raising $33,000 to adopt a child in just three days. Jack and Jessica Hance, a youth minister and family minister from Louisiana, started their journey through the complicated adoption process more […]

When divorce coach Naomi Douglas tells people what she does for a living she almost always gets the same response: “You must be busy.” Like the wedding planner and life coach of the nineties, divorce coaching is one of those job titles that provokes a scoff and an eyebrow raise from the unacquainted, but it’s […]

Each week day care costs my family nearly three hundred dollars. That’s for three days care, split between two children. That’s a lot of dough. It’s a Catch 22. I want my kids’ day care to be well staffed by qualified teachers and providers, who will educate and look after my children, sometimes for as […]

Women who are trying to get pregnant are more likely to conceive if they live near their mother, a new study has found. Researchers at the University of Essex studied the records of 2000 women of the same age, income, fertility and social class who were trying to start a family of their own. They […]

Elijah Rainbow was not yet seven months old when he fell to his death from a footbridge over Brisbane’s Logan River last June, the fourth child in as many years to die in such circumstances. Elijah’s father, David Fisher, has since been charged with murder. His mother, Lauren Fisher has taken her grief onto the […]

Elton John and David Furnish have announced the arrival of their second child, a boy called Elijah Joseph Daniel Furnish-John.

Every day, in hospitals all around Australia, women who don’t need caesareans are having them. In the past 15 years our caesarean rate has nearly doubled — leaving us with one of the highest rates of C-sections in the world. Thirty-two per cent of women now have their babies delivered by caesarean in Australia, and […]