Family

Adopting in midlife: It wasn't what I thought

Margaret Reynolds thought embarking on parenting in midlife would be a personal journey. It was so much more than that...

Poems for midlife

Allie Esiri's collection A Poet for Every Day of the Year features poems for life's big and little moments. We excerpt ones for empty nest, hope, love and more

Four generations of Oxford women

The women in Eleanor Mills's have been going to Oxford for 4 generations. It's important, but not for the obvious reasons, she reveals.

Porn for kids is not the answer. Better sex ed is

Teen girls think it is normal to be choked or throttled during a snog

The pornification of teenlife

Why I'm childfree by choice

It's a less typical road to choose not to have children. But it's a path that can be embraced, says Kerensa Jennings

Things can only get better… 

Linda Kelsey found midlife incredibly difficult. Now, almost 70, she sends us a postcard from our futures

Understanding my father after his death

Meriel Schindler was alienated from her father, who died penniless. In researching a book, she began to understand him.

Saying goodbye to the family home

After the pandemic, Jane Green and her husband were left with an empty family home. Here's how she moved on