"I would not be as chirpy as I am if I hadn't been going every week for the past three years to see a therapist," writes Deborah Hill Cone. That costs $180 an hour per week.

A Green MP says his bill to reform adoption law is much broader than gay adoption and will provide a much needed overhaul, including open adoptions.

Bringing your mobile phone to the dinner table can do damage to personal relationships, even if it's not being used, researchers say.

There's nothing like the reassurance of friendship, writes Gill South.

Malaysian fisherman Hanafi Salleh is trying to reconnect with the children he shared with Joanne Ingham.

The birth of Anna Paquin's twins this week has highlighted the health and social challenges of multiple births.

Do you know what's even higher on the moronic scale than babykinis? Pole dancing for children.