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With his baby face and stubble-less cheeks, Charlie Hyett looks young for his age. Anyone watching the 16-year-old student and his 17-year-old girlfriend, Abbie, as they sit shyly holding hands in the Gloucester Family Support Centre, would be forgiven[...]

Emma Thompson is as unstarry a film star as you will find. She lives in the street she grew up in and her extended family is the core of her life. She tells Joanna Moorhead how it all works, and about the young Rwandan who joined this close clan as her[...]

When I look back, it seems to have been a case of love at first sight. I met my future father-in-law, his wife and their beach house all on the same day. His wife had been coming to the same stretch of beach since early in her girlhood and, for her and[...]

Want better-adjusted, more successful children? The answer is not to cram their free hours with Kumon maths, Mandarin lessons and violin classes. Nor is it to be a "helicopter parent", forever hovering.

I was brought up in a family of five brothers and sisters. That's a lot these days, so people often ask, "What was it like?" The answer is, competitive. Over everything – love, attention, what TV to watch, even who had the best-looking friends. My parents[...]

NO ONE is an island, according to the old saying, and so it should be recognized that no psychological problem is ever a purely individual problem. Therefore, any psychological distress felt by an individual has roots in society at large.

Large plastic bags are being delivered to my home and I'm very grateful for them. So far I have very little stuff for the baby. If it wasn't for the kindness of other mothers ­dropping off their baby goods (because, ­though younger than me, they have[...]

There are things about my husband that drive me crazy. Last spring he cut apart a ­frozen pig's head in our basement. He needed the head to fit into a pot so that he could make pork stock. I'm no saint of a spouse, either. I hate French kissing, ­compulsively[...]

Every new father in Britain is to be given a "dads' guide" that will include an explanation of breast­feeding and tips on how to support their partner.

I started running because I looked round and noticed that, by and large, that was what the thin, sorted people were doing. Ipso facto gazebo, really. It’s amazing how much you can learn just by sitting in the park for two hours, perving people doing[...]