Parents and parenting

Experience: I found my long-lost twin aged 49

by The Guardian | Aug 14, 2026 | Biology, Family, Life and style, Parents and parenting, Siblings, The Guardian | 0 |

The joy, disbelief and shock of discovering I had a brother the same age as me came with a million questions. How were we separated and why?In 1975, my parents saw an advert in their local Australian newspaper. With the Vietnam...

Paid police paternity leave to double after fathers reported being ‘ostracised’

by The Guardian | Aug 12, 2026 | Children, Employee benefits, England, Family, Maternity & paternity rights, Metropolitan police, Parents and parenting, Police, Politics, Public services policy, Society, The Guardian, UK news, Wales, Work & careers | 0 |

Exclusive: Pay increases to two weeks in England and Wales after Guardian revealed officers ‘mocked’ for taking time offPaid paternity leave for police in England and Wales is to double, after the Guardian revealed last year...

‘I thought, I’ve tried everything else, why not give AI a shot?’: the long-lost family reunited by ChatGPT

by The Guardian | Jul 25, 2026 | AI (artificial intelligence), ChatGPT, Family, Genealogy, Life and style, Parents and parenting, Technology, The Guardian | 0 |

Avtar spent decades wondering what happened to the mother he never got to know. Thousands of miles away, Nicci was haunted by the story of a half-brother given away before she was born. How did a chatbot bring them together?As a...

My holiday from hell: my teenage daughter was drunk – and we had a 12-hour car journey to get through

by The Guardian | Jul 10, 2026 | Cornwall holidays, Family, Life and style, Parents and parenting, The Guardian, Young people | 0 |

The five of us were supposed to leave for Cornwall at 9am. But it was noon before we set off and past midnight when we arrived. No wonder two of the family left the next morningIt was a last-minute May half-term break. We knew...

The one change that worked: I banned myself from social media – and my children have never been happier

by The Guardian | Jul 6, 2026 | Family, Life and style, Mobile phones, Parents and parenting, Social media, Technology, The Guardian | 0 |

I used to think my phone helped me to relax. But setting strict limits on my usage has improved my mood and my relationshipsI am a psychotherapist who works with frazzled, snappy parents, and spend my days writing about why we...

HMRC scheme that wrongly cut child benefits did not ‘adequately consider’ impact, report finds

by The Guardian | Jun 29, 2026 | Benefits, Child benefits, Children, HMRC, Home Office, Parents and parenting, Politics, Society, The Guardian, UK news, Welfare | 0 |

NAO inquiry follows suspension of payments after erroneous records that claimants had emigratedAn HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) anti-fraud crackdown that stripped 23,000 families of their child benefit failed to “adequately...

My mother was forced to give me up for adoption. But when we finally met decades later, it was far from a fairytale ending

by The Guardian | Jun 6, 2026 | Adoption, Children, Family, Life and style, Parents and parenting, Politics, Society, The Guardian | 0 |

Thirty years after my parents were pressured into placing me with an adoption agency, I finally reconnected with them. But it was nothing like the neat stories you see on TVOne morning in late September 2023, I discovered by...

How to become emotionally mature – at any age: ‘We often don’t realise the hurt we’re causing’

by The Guardian | May 18, 2026 | Books, Children, Family, Health, Life and style, Mental health, Parents and parenting, Psychology, Society, The Guardian | 0 |

Lindsay C Gibson’s book Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents was an enormous unexpected hit in the pandemic. Now the psychologist is back with her advice for raising happy, healthy childrenAround the time of the...

‘Oh my God, did my dad and I fight’: Olivia Colman on the regrets triggered by new film Jimpa

by The Guardian | May 14, 2026 | Australia news, Culture, Family, Film, John Lithgow, LGBTQ+ rights, Life and style, Olivia Colman, Parents and parenting, The Guardian, Transgender | 0 |

John Lithgow plays the gay and often nude septuagenarian father of Colman’s character in this bombshell-laden story of intergenerational queerness. She explains why her own dad would have ‘sat and cried all the way through it’...

My egg, my wife’s womb, our baby: how we found our way to lesbian motherhood

by The Guardian | May 10, 2026 | Family, Fertility problems, Health, Health & wellbeing, IVF, LGBTQ+ rights, Life and style, Parents and parenting, Pregnancy, Relationships, Society, The Guardian | 0 |

When Leah and I planned a family, we wanted to be as mutual as possible. Could reciprocal IVF – Leah carrying an embryo made from my egg – be the way forward?Late last year, it became my friend’s favourite party trick. “Rosa’s...

My mother and I are like the ocean and the mountains, yet we hear each other without saying a word | Christine Kearney

by The Guardian | May 9, 2026 | Family, Mother's Day, Parents and parenting, The Guardian | 0 |

She delights in pretty dresses and homegrown roses. I am the boisterous daughter who despises rules. Despite all the differences, our bond is strongAmong the myriad things I doubt my mother realises reminds me of her is the...

‘It’s super weird, super odd, super rare’: meet the twins who have different dads

by The Guardian | May 2, 2026 | Biology, Family, Genealogy, Genetics, Life and style, Parents and parenting, Science, Siblings, The Guardian | 0 |

When DNA test results shattered everything Lavinia and Michelle thought they knew about their family history, they also revealed something never before documented in the UKI like being a twin. It defines who I am,” Lavinia...

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