Family

I am a housewife with three kids and a husband. I love my husband and my kids, but they don’t appreciate me at all. I’m an unpaid servant who serves up meals, tidies the house and washes the clothes. I don’t have a life of my own at all – I’m just a wife and […]

They survived wars, hardship and personal tragedies, and after lives of struggle, expected to spend their final years in peace, surrounded by their loving families. Instead, their lives were stolen in terrifying circumstances. At 5am on November 18, fire broke out at the Quakers Hill Nursing Home in Sydney. Three people lost their lives at […]

Most children find stepmothers about as appealing as broccoli, but Shane Warne’s kids can’t seem to get enough of their stepmum-to-be Liz Hurley. Liz and her son Damian, nine, joined Shane’s kids Brooke, 13, Jackson, 11, and nine-year-old Summer to watch the cricketer in action in Melbourne on Saturday. In pictures: The changing face of […]

The ability to trust, love and resolve conflict with loved ones starts much earlier than you think. In fact, a new review of the literature in Current Directions in Psychological Science, a journal published by the Association for Psychological Science, found that these abilities start in early childhood. Psychologist Jeffry A. Simpson, one of the […]

Are you trying to decide whether to be a stay-at-home mum or head back to work? The results of a new study may help you make up your mind. A study published by the American Psychological Association found that mothers with jobs were healthier and happier than mums who stay at home during their children’s […]

My boyfriend Drew comes from a very close family and I’m pretty sure no woman would ever have been quite good enough for him in their eyes. If they were to ever find out the truth about me I hate to think what would happen. So I had mixed feelings when I heard his mother […]

It’s hard work to get teens away from their mobile phones, but should parents be concerned about the sexual nature of what they are sharing? A new study suggests that parents don’t have as much to worry about as first thought LiveScience reported. Study researcher Janis Wolak, of the University of New Hampshire, has performed […]

Creative people are less honest than those with less active imaginations, a new study has claimed. Research published by the American Psychological Association found that creative-minded people were far more likely to cheat and behave unethically, possibly because their greater imagination allowed them to rationalise their actions. “Greater creativity helps individuals solve difficult tasks across […]

For most people, home movies are nothing more than a way to embarrass your children at their 21st birthday parties — but for one British family, a short clip of their two sons has earned them a cool $155,000. Howard Davies-Carr uploaded a short clip of his sons Charlie and Harry onto Youtube so the […]

Suri Cruise is only five years old but she’s already showing the paparazzi what she thinks of them. Suri was out with mum Katie Holmes in New York last week when photographers started taking pictures. Suri was quickly fed-up with the attention and decided to vent her frustrations by pulling a series of funny faces […]