The parents who regret having children

From tests that predict your fertility window to coaches promising to mentor you through the mother of all decisions, the market for hand-holding women through the parenthood question is no longer in its infancy. Faced with a life-changing call, WH asks if the business of offspring evaluation is long overdue – or capitalising on women’s body clocks?

As an increasing number of women decide to have a baby solo, Lisa Oxenham says it’s time to talk more openly about what makes up modern families

Whether by choice or not, singledom in midlife is on the rise. We explore the many pleasures – and occasional pitfalls – of going solo

Staring at yet another negative pregnancy test, I felt nothing. There were no tears, no heartbreak. It was my ninth IVF cycle, but I felt completely emotionally detached from the process. I’d forgotte

Mothers are the most familiar strangers in our lives, says novelist Abigail Bergstrom. We grow up believing we know them inside out, and, yet, how much of them do we truly see?

IT was one of those conversations on the bus that makes you keen to hear the rest of it. “You know, I really wasn’t in the mood to go,” the woman on the seat in front of me was saying to her companion