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We might see more women, children and a greater diversity of riders in the capital if the mayor and his cycling tsar forged ahead with their promise to transform cycling
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From denial through depression to eventual acceptance, how to deal with the dreaded pox -
There are far easier ways to screw up your kid than by making them an only child, says Eva Wiseman
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If they’re not up to notifying others about their news, then offer to do it for them. And look after yourself too -
At five, hip-hop poet Akala was racially abused at school. Could his mother ever really understand?
Opinion
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They lie in wait, unforgiving mobiles poised to film my every foible. Such is the fate of parents in the digital age, says Guardian features writer Joanna Moorhead
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The first daughter claims to be a mother first while the president screams nonsense about gangs and rips children from their parents
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Motherhood is having a moment in books, TV and even women’s magazines, but in feminist theory it’s sadly taboo, says freelance journalist Amy Westervelt
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A 30-year-old man ordered by a judge to move out of his parents’ house might be shiftless, but he’s not an anomaly, says the Guardian columnist Tim Dowling
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Domestic violence is not a lower-income problem alone but in middle-class households it’s still under-reported -
Calderdale council’s Positive Choices scheme shows mothers trapped in a painful cycle how to become successful parents
Advice
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You seem to want to make things better, says Annalisa Barbieri, but something (perhaps your husband?) is holding you back -
His flat has broken windows and a broken toilet and there is rubbish all over the floor. I would like to help, but don’t know how to do so without offending him -
As a gay man, I have major body image issues that are holding me back from having the satisfying sexual experiences I seek -
You clearly want more from the partnership than your boyfriend is prepared to offer, says Mariella Frostrup. The painful truth is he’s not available to you in the way you want
Love & sex
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Many women have similar experiences to me of being harassed. Adopting some historic etiquette could make a difference, says comedian Tiff Stevenson -
Every day millions of people ask Google life’s most difficult questions. Writer Stuart Heritage answers one of the commonest queries
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30 May 1974: Woman’s Own hopes it will encourage more men to put their worries on paper instead of sustaining a painful and harmful cover-up
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‘It’s a contract only a man can create, and sometimes it feels like only a man can break it. Women are expected to sign on the dotted line’
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Reality TV is fast approaching a new low
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You clearly want more from the partnership than your boyfriend is prepared to offer, says Mariella Frostrup. The painful truth is he’s not available to you in the way you want
The truth about only children: are they more insular and confident?