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If your family Christmas usually involves annoying relatives and unwanted presents, here’s how to be grateful and actually enjoy what the festive season brings.
Ads depicting mothers in the UK and Australia between 1950 and 2010 continue to limit maternal knowledge to the domestic sphere and reinforce gender stereotypes of ‘professional’ expertise
The point of an argument can become lost when debating climate change. Greta Thunberg show us how to stay on-topic.
Parents shouldn’t fear putting tech under the tree. In fact, it could bring families closer together.
More needs to be done by the government and local authorities to recruit diverse adopters and foster carers – including Muslims.
The Earned Income Tax Credit was established in 1975 to reduce payroll taxes and help with rising prices for low-income families. Today, it could help poor families with housing.
While 92% of adults feel that talking with their loved ones about end-of-life care is important, only 32% have actually done so.
If you’re overlooking potential romantic partners because they’re not who you envisioned as ‘the one’, it might be time to reassess your approach.
Between 2000 and 2015, the population of U.S. citizen minors living in Mexico more than doubled. Who are the kids living on the other side of the border?
More than one-quarter of home care workers are born outside of the U.S. Stricter immigration laws could make it harder to find people to do this aide work.
Thanks to a provincial insurance plan, Québec fathers are spending more time with their newborns, bringing about changes in the gender division of labour within the family.
The number of births in the US is down 2% – to what the CDC calls ‘the lowest number of births in 32 years.’ This drop brings the US more in line with its peers.
Children now spend more time at home and alone with their parents – new research.
Somali community leaders should help to foster links with their traditional culture.
Young people can make big savings living with their parents, but it throws up some thorny issues.
In Australian picture books, family representation has been overwhelmingly traditional. But this may be changing.
How do women decide how many children to have and when to have them? The data reveal a few major patterns.
Many people are ‘polyamorous’ — they have two or more romantic partners. Often they struggle to disclose this to family, making for challenges in the holidays.
Children start developing empathy and compassion as toddlers and should have a good understanding of generosity by age nine. Parents can help foster these behaviours.
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