Controversial new data suggests that more than half of all sole parents on the domestic purposes benefit first became beneficiaries as teens.

Authorities in central Mexico say a newborn baby girl, who was declared dead but later revived inside her coffin, has died.

Crown Princess Mary is pregnant with twins and is expected to give birth to them in January.

A Kiwi couple a week fly overseas for fertility treatment because it's easier to fulfil their dreams of becoming parents abroad.

A ground-breaking study has found that mothers can go back to work months after the birth of their child without the baby's well-being suffering.

NZ is still only a middling performer when it comes to parental leave provisions, according to a study.

Breakfast co-host, Pippa Wetzell has announced this morning that she is expecting her third child in February 2011

There's no simple job description for fatherhood, but Mangere first-time dad Daniel Brown knows the kind of dad he doesn't want to be.

It is a brave woman to demand that abortions are removed from the Crime Act, writes Dita de Boni.

The Kiwi behind a controversial social networking site that bars ugly people has announced the launch of a virtual sperm and egg bank.

An MP has taken the controversial step of proposing a new law to legalise abortion on request for women up to 24 weeks pregnant.

Pregnant Muslim women who fast during Ramadan are likely to have smaller babies, research has found.

Encouraging a mother to spit on her baby may not sound like good science, but it is the basis of a world-first study in NZ.

Calls for mothers to stop sleeping with their newborn children are being ignored by some hospitals and birthing centres.

A NZ medical student who used a Taser to shock a nine-month pregnant woman, causing her to go into labour, has been charged with attempted first-degree murder in the US.

A NZ medical student who used a Taser to repeatedly shock a woman nearly nine months pregnant has been charged with attempted first-degree murder in the US.

A celebrity couple have opened up about the emotional toll of failed IVF attempts in the hope others will take comfort from their ordeal.

Breastfeeding advocates are outraged at a magazine's "commandment".

Ordinary mums-to-be are taking off their clothes in the name of beauty, appearing in a lingerie ad campaign spanning 16 countries.