Some encouragement for the bring-home-the-bacon-cook-it-up-in-the-pan set:

Women who juggle work, motherhood and marriage might be stressed now but chances are they'll end up healthier and happier than stay-at-home mums.

Research suggests women who combine all three roles live more balanced lives that in the long run leave them trimmer and healthier.

The British study found middle-aged women who had been in long-term relationships, were parents and... more

Mark and Sam and Cj have just gone off on an adventure. While Mark totes Cj in the baby pack, Sam carries snacks in his 'packpack', and the anticipation of a good time being had by all is high.

Watching my husband go happily off with both kids puts me in mind of all the hopefully adoptive mothers I hear from who are dealing with what are almost affectionately called, "reluctant spouses".

Well, Ladies, I think we may just have to admit to ourselves that some men can be a bit slow on the up-take. I know. I know. That's a very sexist statement and well deserving of... more

My husband was forty nine when I first approached him of adopting a child. We had been married twenty-three years, I was in my forties, and we had never had children. We’d talked about it, but instead of pursuing the child dream, we stayed extra busy doing the two incomes, no kids thing.

After our first meeting with our agency, hubby came right out and said, I think I’m too old to adopt. Before our caseworker left our home he’d put in a call to a friend of his. A foster-adopt father in his fifties. We learned from this generous man that he and his wife adopted six children,... more