How did parenthood become an unaffordable luxury?
Money alone won’t fix the childcare crisis. Rethinking work and family might.
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Skinny jeans, plastics, stress: what’s behind the decline in male fertility?
Why scientists are increasingly concerned about sperm.
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Employers must stop penalising women for having children
Why extending redundancy protections for expectant mothers and new parents is long overdue.
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The brutality of ballet
Alice Robb’s Don’t Think Dear reveals how the elite world of dance exerts a terrible physical and mental toll.
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The hidden danger of asbestos in UK schools
The carcinogenic substance is estimated to be present on the estates of as much as 81 per cent of English…
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Rachel de Souza: “Big Tech knows it harms children – it should get serious”
The children’s commissioner on social media, porn and the mental health crisis in schools.
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This government doesn’t have a clue about grooming gangs
It’s raising expectations about a system that will end up failing young girls.
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Eastern Ukraine’s surging healthcare crisis
Doctors and NGOs near the war’s front lines report that a physical and mental health disaster is looming.
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Why reforming Ofsted isn’t as simple as it sounds
The inspection body is flawed – but we forget about the anarchy of schools before its creation and the kids…
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The parent trap: how Britain became a very, very expensive place to raise a child
Money alone won’t fix the childcare crisis. Rethinking work and motherhood might.
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Why I hate Mother’s Day
On no other day of the year are mums placed under so much pressure to behave “like a mum”. And…
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“It’s not a solution”: Stella Creasy on the government’s childcare reform
The Labour MP for Walthamstow on why Jeremy Hunt's pledges don't add up – and why childcare is no "women's…
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“It’s half thought-out”: Childcare sector leaders on Jeremy Hunt’s reforms
Worries persist over whether the Chancellor has pledged enough funding in the Budget to bolster providers.
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Children’s mental health services are a postcode lottery
Nearly a third of young people are not receiving treatment when referred – the government must take action.
ByBritain’s childcare crisis, with Stella Creasy
The Labour MP on how expensive childcare is fuelling the cost-of-living crisis.
We are all spending too much time online
Why the normalisation of endless screen time has to stop.
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Changes to Roald Dahl reveal our hypocritical attitudes towards children and media
Kids are expected to shrug off a daily barrage of sexual and violent imagery – but are seen as too…
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Hannah Barnes: Inside the collapse of the Tavistock gender clinic
The Newsnight journalist on her book Time to Think, and why she had to tell the story of the children…
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Joan Bakewell’s Diary: living with cancer, and the age of the grandparent
Medical progress is making us live longer – and grannies like me are being turned to for free childcare.
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I live with two children who are not my own and they are doing me the world of good
How sweet it is to enter into a world created by the contortions of child’s imagination, and to pretend the…
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