"I would not be as chirpy as I am if I hadn't been going every week for the past three years to see a therapist," writes Deborah Hill Cone. That costs $180 an hour per week.

A Green MP says his bill to reform adoption law is much broader than gay adoption and will provide a much needed overhaul, including open adoptions.

Bringing your mobile phone to the dinner table can do damage to personal relationships, even if it's not being used, researchers say.

There's nothing like the reassurance of friendship, writes Gill South.

Malaysian fisherman Hanafi Salleh is trying to reconnect with the children he shared with Joanne Ingham.

Parenthood can be rugged, notes Donna McIntyre, but quality practical advice smoothes out the rough bits.

Vagina. There, we’ve said it. Yet so many won’t. This vital organ, once revered, has become taboo. But could women be about to reclaim it?

To capitalise on the mood of open-mindedness sweeping the nation, perhaps the time's right for other sexual minority groups to raise awareness.