Family Issues Features

New life for mum?

My father left my mother for his mistress. My mother is devastated

Nine women, nine lives

Nine women talk about motherhood, work and the choices they've made about their live

No spirit for Christmas

I am a 24-year-old single mother with an 18-month-old boy. This is our first Christmas since I separated from his father, and I'm getting depressed. Help

Post-Christmas relationship repair

The ten most common relationship difficulties couples' experience over Christmas and how to solve them. Susan Quilliam advises

Sex and birth order: How your birth order affects your behaviour in the bedroom

Could birth order be the reason why one partner is selfish in bed and another is a creative lover? Find out what birth order may have to do with your sex life

Skeletons in the closet

What happens when a deep-rooted family secret comes out?

Stuff the turkey

At the tender age of 26, I said I wouldn't be home for Christmas. Even amidst the wailing and the gnashing of teeth I knew this was an important moment in my life

Surviving breast cancer - Joy's story

Lying in the bath one Saturday night, Joy Ogden discovered a lump in her breast. Diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 59, here she recounts her experience

Talking about teen sex

Find out how to deal with your hormonal teenage

The 'child-free by choice' brigade wave bye, bye baby

Meet the women who have decided to dodge baby sick and nappies by remaining child-free

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