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              Parenting and families

              • Wednesday, 8 January, 2025
                Demographics and population
                Glorify fatherhood to make more babies, suggests Nobel laureate

                Demography is destiny

              • Wednesday, 25 December, 2024
                Chinese society
                China steps up campaign for single people to date, marry and give birth

                Women receive cold-calls about family planning and universities asked to offer ‘love courses’ to tackle demographic crisis

                A woman wearing light blue scrubs looks after babies in a post-partum care centre in Shanghai
              • Tuesday, 24 December, 2024
                Ageing Populations
                Germany joins EU’s ‘ultra-low’ fertility club

                Europe’s most populous country sees fertility rates fall below crucial threshold of 1.4

              • Friday, 13 December, 2024
                ReviewFiction
                Childish Literature — reflections on the joys and fears of parenting

                Alejandro Zambra explores the ups and downs of fatherhood in this collection of essays, poems and stories

                A toylike decoration in the shape of a fluffy pink unicorn hanging from the ceiling
              • Friday, 29 November, 2024
                Soumaya Keynes
                Is there such a thing as too much parental leave?

                Done the wrong way, it can have awkward effects

                Ann Kiernan illustration of a small child drawing a graph on a wall with crayons
              • Saturday, 23 November, 2024
                Financial literacy
                What Generation Alpha wants to learn about money

                A sense of the challenges ahead mean primary and secondary schoolchildren are eager for financial literacy

                Michelle Sheridan with 10-year-old son Sawyer at the GoHenry round table event
              • Wednesday, 9 October, 2024
                OutlookAmy Kazmin
                Italy’s single women fight for the right to IVF

                Currently the government only permits heterosexual, married women to undergo treatment

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              • Monday, 30 September, 2024
                FT readers respond
                FT readers respond: why are young men struggling to find work?

                Commenters discuss the latest figures on the male education deficit — join the debate

              • Monday, 16 September, 2024
                OutlookPatti Waldmeir
                Why childcare in the US is a problem for us all

                This is not just an issue for parents — employers need to be part of the solution

                Black and white photo from 1942 of a room full of toddlers having a rest period on small beds at a nursery
              • Tuesday, 10 September, 2024
                UK among the most expensive countries to bring up twins

                Parents having two babies at once face financial hit of at least £20,000 in additional costs, according to Twins Trust report

              • Monday, 9 September, 2024
                Edward Timpson
                The best support for children keeps things simple

                Policies that actually work trust local communities and focus on getting the fundamentals right

                Three toddlers play with toys in a nursery setting
              • Saturday, 7 September, 2024
                Emma Jacobs
                Why did shared parental leave fall flat?

                Our systems for figuring out childcare have not caught up with an egalitarian society

                A black and white photo of a baby in a nappy hanging on to a line in a garden
              • Friday, 6 September, 2024
                Camilla Cavendish
                It’s not you — parenting really is becoming more stressful

                The increased isolation many feel is a symptom of a larger problem

                Jonathan McHugh illustration of children running around a woman tying her with maypole ropes.
              • Thursday, 22 August, 2024
                FT MagazineTim Hayward
                Mr Hayward’s Manual of Modern Manners

                Table manners aren’t getting ‘worse’, but they’re definitely changing

                An illustration of a man sitting at a dining table at a place setting, holding a book over his face with the title Mr Hayward’s Manual of Manners
              • Thursday, 22 August, 2024
                FT MagazineAnjli Raval
                Your boss is not your parent

                It is harder now to be both. We ask way more of each other than we once did

              • Sunday, 4 August, 2024
                Pilita Clark
                Beware the march of the childless voter

                JD Vance’s attack on people without kids flies in the face of demographic reality

                A person stands on the winner’s podium with two other people in runners up positions who have children in tow
              • Friday, 2 August, 2024
                Priya Khanchandani
                Kids’ furniture is a con

                Parents have been indoctrinated to think that buying child-specific designs is a question of survival. It’s not

                pink girly clothes hanging on a clothes stand
              • Thursday, 25 July, 2024
                ReviewFiction
                Wife by Charlotte Mendelson — a clever account of coercive control

                There is passion — and humour — throughout this novel about a same-sex marriage in its final throes but it is a dark tale of domestic anguish

                An illustration featuring a black silhouette of a head, within which a mother is helping her child with a bowl of food while another child is engaged in drawing on the floor
              • Thursday, 18 July, 2024
                House & Home
                Is ‘birdnesting’ the answer for divorcing parents?

                The arrangement in which children of separated couples stay in the family home with one parent, before the other swaps in, is taking off

              • Friday, 12 July, 2024
                FT Magazine
                He killed four classmates with a gun. His parents were convicted

                Inside the historic trial that convicted the parents of a school shooter

                Part of a photo of an older boy with messy brown hair
              • Wednesday, 3 July, 2024
                Lucy Warwick-Ching
                Can I change our house deeds?

                Due to my footballer husband’s income our house is listed in his sole name and I worry what could happen if we divorce

              • Sunday, 30 June, 2024
                Work & Careers
                ‘You have to be around for the moment they speak to you’: how teens affect working parents

                Employers are often less flexible with staff who need to care for older children

                A woman sits on a sofa in a well-lit room
              • Friday, 28 June, 2024
                Claer Barrett
                Dress, nails, spray tan, helicopter: have school proms gone too far?

                Parents will stop at nothing to help their children celebrate the end of exam season

                A group of girls posing and taking a selfie before a school prom
              • Sunday, 23 June, 2024
                Elaine Moore
                Forget privacy, young internet users want to be tracked

                Make sure you know the etiquette if you keep tabs on friends and family

                Ben Hickey illustration of two apps on a screen of a mobile phone spying on the other apps
              • Wednesday, 19 June, 2024
                Sophie Heawood
                Why can’t my parents see the upsides of downsizing?

                ‘We have an older generation often rattling around in large properties filled by possessions rather than people’

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