Motherhood
‘A f...ing good story’: Minnie Driver on Damon, Weinstein and being ‘difficult’
Harvey Weinstein didn’t fancy her and she was seen as “difficult” during her career peak – two things the actor is now very thankful for.
- by Louise Carpenter
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Parenting
When it comes to kids, mothers are saddled with the ‘mental load’
The particulars of running children’s lives are boundless, enduring, invisible and stressful, but who does it all is rarely measured. New research finds it is almost always mothers.
- by Wendy Tuohy
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Sunday Life
The traumatic birth of his son set Steven on a path for change
How do you take life’s most negative moments and turn them into something wonderful? Three people describe how they did it.
- by Dilvin Yasa
Opinion
Sunday Life
How I’ve lasted 23 years in the hardest job in the world
Despite all the tantrums and eye-rolling, there are moments that make my chosen career as a parent blissfully worthwhile.
- by Kerri Sackville
‘I’m trying to keep my @*#% together’: Being a surrogate mum in Ukraine
Commercial surrogacy was a booming industry for Ukraine. Then Russia invaded.
- by Susan Dominus
When sons become young men, a new threat enters their lives
There are no easy stages of parenting, but what happens when independence comes with a car, school pride turns into a menacing shade of tribalism, and peer pressure means getting drunk?
- by Julie Fison
Opinion
Good Weekend
My three-year-old masters mass-shooter drills while US leaders fail to act
American children are being asked to summon unbelievable courage every day while their representatives do nothing on gun control.
- by Amelia Lester
Opinion
Babies
The cost of living: Can I afford to have a baby?
No one warned me my desire to have a child would be tied to how much I had in my savings account.
- by Mary Madigan
Inside the refuges helping family violence survivors get back on their feet
For many of us, the Netflix drama Maid was our first glimpse inside a women’s refuge. But the portrayal could not be further removed from reality.
- by Margaret Ambrose
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Good Weekend
‘I wish you were never born’: Coming to terms with my mother
Stephanie Foo’s memoir reveals how it can often take until adulthood to realise that a complex relationship with a parent was in fact, anything but orthodox.
- by Stephanie Foo
The joy of new friendships that comes with having kids
Becoming a mother drew Patti Miller into friendships that have lasted well beyond the baby years.
- by Patti Miller