Parents and parenting

What is Primodos and why were 100 UK families seeking compensation?

Concerns about birth defects first raised in 1960s but evidence for causal link to pregnancy test remains contentious

Hannah Devlin Science correspondent

26, May, 2023 @1:54 PM

British parents need to adapt to climate chaos – but not by abandoning the great outdoors | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

Try telling a cooped-up child they can’t go out due to global heating, says the Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

26, May, 2023 @7:45 AM

Taking a breath to cure a hangover | Brief letters

Brief letters: Oxygen to the rescue | Train strain | Hands off our plants | The joy of children

24, May, 2023 @3:35 PM

Full Time review – school-run thriller turns into high-stakes motherhood drama

Laure Calamy plays a woman forever racing between maternal and work duties in an acutely relatable story that grips

Cath Clarke

24, May, 2023 @8:00 AM

A moment that changed me: I was in my 20s and depressed – then my mother moved into my bed

Her attempt to comfort me seemed ridiculous at the time. But years later it showed me how I could be there for my own daughter

Rowan Hisayo Buchanan

24, May, 2023 @6:00 AM

Low birth rate linked to fear about the future | Letter

Letter: Chris Neill suspects that young people don’t feel the world is a safe enough place to bring a child into

23, May, 2023 @3:39 PM

The domestic bliss of bringing up baby | Letter

Letter: The fashion for portraying parenting in terms of chore load is reductive, says Yvonne Williams

23, May, 2023 @3:38 PM

‘I didn’t even know men could get it’: the hidden impact of male postnatal depression

Postnatal depression affects up to 15% of new mothers, but studies suggest almost as many fathers also show symptoms – and little is being done to help them

Ammar Kalia

22, May, 2023 @9:00 AM

My son’s aquatic empire has taken over the sitting room – and I am in over my head | Séamas O’Reilly

His toys are lampreys, yeti crab and hydrothermal vents, the TV remote an ice research station. It’s an Octonauts craze and I am sinking, says Séamas O’Reilly

Séamas O’Reilly

21, May, 2023 @8:31 AM

Parents may have the toughest job in the world, but they must let us go travelling

Despite the cliche, going it alone is undoubtedly something that helps you ‘find yourself’ – be it a weekend, a month or a year

Maddie Thomas

20, May, 2023 @8:00 PM

Turn off your email, get the packing right – and never, ever play Monopoly: 15 tips for a happy holiday

Here’s how to master the art of holidaying, whoever you’re going away with

Jess Cartner-Morley

19, May, 2023 @10:00 AM

Can we call time on the ‘doesband’ doing ‘daddy day care’? Fathers are way past that | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

Millennial men are overcoming the hands-off parenting of previous generations, says Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett