Parents and parenting
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Single mothers in China find a new kind of partner – other single mothers
Posts from women seeking like-minded parents to share a home and child-rearing responsibilities are appearing …
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Japan introduces rules to put outlandish baby names to bed
The change is designed to halt the use of kirakira (shiny or glittery) names that have proliferated among pare…
- Children, Family, Global development, India, Inequality, Inequality and development, Life and style, Parents and parenting, Society, South and Central Asia, Women, World news
So fathers want to be ‘more present’ in the home? Put down your phone and I’ll tell you how | Nilanjana Bhowmick
Babysitting is all very well, but to truly lighten a woman’s load, partners must juggle physical, emotional an…
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‘I can’t give up on hope’: As the world’s population passes 8bn, new parents from Italy to India look to the future
In Siena, Luisa worries about social media. In Delhi, Nikita is trying to proof her house against air pollutio…
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Gaga for goo goo: Wellington named the global capital of baby talk
Residents of the New Zealand city have the world’s most extreme vocal changes when speaking to babies, a study…
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‘Give me my baby’: an Indian woman’s fight to reclaim her son after adoption without consent
Anupama S Chandran’s newborn child was sent away by her parents, who were unhappy that his father was from the…
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Sindhu Vee and her father go back in time: ‘As a child, I was always copying him’
The comedian and her dad recreate a childhood photo and talk about early days in India, agoraphobia and swappi…
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Kareena Kapoor Khan on breaking pregnancy taboos: ‘No one wants to talk about belching and swollen feet!’
One of Bollywood’s most bankable actors has written a revolutionary pregnancy book that lifts the lid on libid…
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Reasons to be fearful of China’s data-gathering | Letters
We should be suspicious of the role of the Chinese Communist party in the harvesting of genetic data from unbo…
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‘Too much of a burden’: Chinese couples react to three-child policy
China has announced that couples will be permitted to have up to three children. What do couples think of the …
- Asia Pacific, China, Coronavirus outbreak, Health & wellbeing, Infectious diseases, Life and style, Medical research, Parents and parenting, Pregnancy, Science, UK news, World news
No elevated risk of coronavirus in pregnancy, experts say
No evidence virus passes to foetus during pregnancy, according to latest researchCoronavirus – latest updatesP…
- Asia Pacific, China, Coronavirus outbreak, Education, Family, Hong Kong, Infectious diseases, Japan, Parents and parenting, Schools, World news
The longest holiday: parents coping with coronavirus school closures in east Asia
In a bid to stem spread of the virus, schools in Hong Kong, China and Japan have been shut for weeksCoronaviru…
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Propaganda and sexism prove powerful contraceptives for Chinese women
China’s push for more births fails to convince a generation of only-childrenChina’s government has been trying…
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Culture shock: can trailblazing Japanese minister change minds on paternity leave?
Shinjiro Koizumi’s move raises hopes that more new fathers will be emboldened to stay home with their babiesSh…
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‘Parenting here means checking the ingredients of teargas’: my return to Hong Kong
Emma-Lee Moss, who makes music as Emmy the Great, on life, new motherhood and her divided birthplaceIt feels a…