Many Kiwis refuse to join social networking sites like Facebook. But as the online community grows, it's becoming even tougher to stay away. Jehan Casinader confronts his social networking nightmare and meets others who are doing the same.
Perhaps it's the growing novelty factor of having babies that lends some couples to spill so recklessly about the downsides.
Janie McKeon was caught off guard last year when, at the age of 17, her son's girlfriend came to stay.
The teenage years are fraught for both teens and parents and research shows the adolescent years are getting longer.
A Kiwi couple a week fly overseas for fertility treatment because it's easier to fulfil their dreams of becoming parents abroad.
National Party president Peter Goodfellow's marriage break-up just gets messier.
More than half of parents keep an eye on their children by checking their social networking online.
Hone Harawira being uncomfortable with Pakeha in-laws does not necessarily equate with feelings of contempt towards them or all Pakeha.
Dita De Boni is introduced to the wonders - or otherwise - of international plane travel with two young children.
The Human Rights Commission says Maori Party MP Hone Harawira needs to consider whether his personal feelings are helpful to race relations.
'I, the two girls from Rome and Berlusconi were in the bed,' escort Maria Teresa De Nicolo told an Italian newspaper.
Paul Henry says he feels "37 and three months" and has the hair of a 40-year-old.
National MP Tau Henare today rejected Hone Harawira's notion of not wanting his kids to date Pakeha, calling the comments racist and stupid.
John Key says it is "ridiculous" that MP Hone Harawira would not be happy about his children dating Pakeha.
It was America's version of a royal wedding: lavish, complicated and at the centre of a huge security operation.
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.
"Raunch culture" has set back women in Western societies more than 50 years, says a visiting Australian feminist.
Midlfe crises can be a time to discover what really matters. Maybe it's time New Zealand had one.
A couple who split up after winning $1.3 million in Lotto are heading for a courtroom showdown to settle a bitter legal feud.
Inspired by a love of Dr Dolittle and Tarzan to go to Tanzania and study chimpanzees, Jane Goodall has now clocked up 50 years of groundbreaking research into their behaviour. Robin McKie charts her extraordinary story.
The lingerie model is reportedly three months pregnant to new husband Orlando Bloom.
As the Clintons' daughter Chelsea prepares to walk down the aisle, Paul Harris finds she is surprisingly unaffected by an adolescence spent in a tumultuous White House.