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Frances Glessner Lee discovered her true calling later in life. An heiress without formal schooling, she was in her 50s when she transformed her fascination with…

Far from the Tree, Andrew Solomon’s brilliant nonfiction book about parenting children different from oneself, offers the useful distinction between vertical and horizontal identities. Vertical identities…

Maya Angelou once said “a hero is any person really intent on making this a better place for all people” and when she said that, I…

Getty ImagesA baby whose mother was not vaccinated against whooping cough while pregnant has died after contracting the infection, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has…

Maluma stopped his Mexico City concert over the weekend to scold a mother who brought her young child to the show without ear protection. The performance…

Naina Mishra seemed to turn up at the yoga studio in Euston, north-west London, out of nowhere. She wasn’t referred by anyone; she didn’t come with…

Sophie HutchinsonHealth correspondentGetty ImagesA former nurse has lost her High Court challenge against the registration of England’s first private gender clinic for teenagers. Susan Evans, and…

There’s a scene in the documentary Motherboard in which life as a lone parent is very much going off the rails. While film-maker Victoria Mapplebeck is…

The mother of one of the British victims of the Air India crash says her family is “heartbroken” after the wrong remains were sent home in…

A woman who was found dead alongside her “entirely dependent” teenage daughter had called 999 saying she “could not move” almost four months before her body…