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From Tupac to Jay-Z, many a rap artist has set pen to paper to pay homage to the women who gave them birth.
Despite the diverse images used for God in Scripture and Christian tradition, male language and images predominate in contemporary Christian worship.
Rage is a part of human motherhood, sandwiched between grief and shame. But it can be harnessed to build a better world.
Parents with a newborn were doing significantly better on most parental and relational outcomes during lockdown.
The growing popularity of #winemom and its portrayal on social media. Is it humour and empowerment or binge drinking and mental health challenges?
Microbes can alter the minds of mouse mothers and disrupt their natural instinct to nurture their young.
There are two things Indonesian policymakers can do to encourage fathers to get involved in the success of exclusive breastfeeding.
A fetus needs oxygen long before its lungs work and it’s exposed to the air. Some ingenious biochemistry explains how the mother’s blood delivers it.
Does having children make the goal of fairly dividing work at home more elusive?
Before the advent of genetic testing, definitions of paternity were primarily social and legal. Science has destabilized these older definitions, but it has not replaced them.
Mothers are told to stop breastfeeding when taking certain medications – even if they won’t harm their baby.
It’s very difficult to measure whether a conception was intended. But those data are vital to understanding women’s choices.
Making mothers happy is important for the wellbeing of the babies. How can we do that?
Hospitals sometimes recommend women express milk towards the end of their pregnancies. But it’s not suitable for all.
The clinical committee reviewing obstetrics services for the federal government’s Medicare review said suicide is one of the leading causes of maternal death in Australia. Is that true?
The pressure on new mums can be overwhelming, but culturally they are expected to go it alone.
Fall in love, have a baby, watch your happiness and satisfaction plummet. Psychology researchers know the transition to parenthood can be rough on relationships.
One of the very first pieces of advice you receive in architecture school is Never Work For Family: the risks are too great, runs the argument, there’s too much emotion and too much money at stake, and…
It affects nearly one in five women, and half go on to develop type 2 diabetes. It’s one of the great intervention opportunities that public health overseers keep ignoring.
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Professor of Child Public Health, Swansea University
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Assistant Professor of Sociology, Louisiana State University
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Trial Co-ordinator, La Trobe University
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Professor and Associate Dean - Diversity, Belonging, Inclusion, and Equity, Australian National University
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Professor of Psychology and Director of Clinical Training, Binghamton University, State University of New York
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Professor of Maternal and Child Health, University of Stirling
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Principal Research Fellow, Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University
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Professor of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, Griffith University
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Professor of Midwifery, Associate Dean Research and HDR, Midwifery Discipline Leader, Western Sydney University
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Senior Research Fellow, Jean Hailes Research Unit, School of Public Health & Preventive Medicine, Monash University
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Suzanne King is a Friend of The Conversation.
Full Professor of Psychiatry, McGill University
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Professor, Department of Communication, Marketing and Media, Robert Gordon University
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Director of the Design and Creative Practice Enabling Impact Platform, RMIT, RMIT University
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Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor in Public Health, University of Stirling