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In the Age of Alternative Reproduction, Who Are a Child's Parents?

In the Age of Alternative Reproduction, Who Are a Child's Parents? - Thanks to modern medicine, more traditional and non-traditional couples and individuals are able to become parents through assisted reproductive methods, including anonymous and known sperm and/or egg donation, surrogacy, and second parent adoption. States have varying laws on sperm donor rights and responsibilities, the legality of surrogate motherhood contracts, recognition of same-sex marriages or civil unions, the need...

Inside Britain's bedrooms: Do you ever feel as if everyone's having sex apart from you? You are not alone as these poignant and frank diaries reveal..

Inside Britain's bedrooms: Do you ever feel as if everyone's having sex apart from you? You are not alone as these poignant and frank diaries reveal - he Sex Diaries Project, journalist Arianne Cohen asked hundreds of ordinary British people to record anonymously their intimate sexual thoughts and encounters over one week.From the unrepentant, adulterous husband to the frustrated grandmother desperate to reignite some passion in her marriage, the diaries offer a truly fascinating glimpse...

Marriage, the key to a better life

Marriage, the key to a better life: Study finds tying the knot means improved health and longer life expectancy - Marriage cheers you up, improves your diet and helps you live longer, researchers say.It brings better mental and physical health, reducing the chance of premature death by 15 per cent, according to major studies in seven European countries.And the longer a marriage lasts the more the rewards accumulate – the only catch being that the relationship has to be loving and supportive.John...

How to guide girls - Raising daughters can be daunting

How to guide girls - Raising daughters can be daunting – but a new book of the collected wisdom of teachers from more than 200 leading girls’ schools will help parents negotiate the minefieldsWhen it comes to raising offspring, do parents today need more help with their daughters? The Girls’ Schools Association certainly thinks so.“Parents are particularly anxious about raising daughters as there are greater pressures on girls,” says Dr Helen Wright, headmistress of St Mary’s Calne, president of...

Heartbreak Helps You Find 'The One'

Heartbreak Helps You Find 'The One' - Previous heartbreak is an essential factor in finding "the one", a US psychologist says. Despite the pain of heartbreak, those who have had a previous long-term relationship were at an advantage in the dating world, Dr Gian Gonzaga says."Think about all of the things that you do in life where you get better with practice, and a lot of times people don't believe that about relationships," Dr Gonzaga told AAP on Thursday.Better with practice . . . use your...

Why Married Men Are Less Antisocial

Why Married Men Are Less Antisocial - A good marriage civilizes men. At least, that's what it looks like, since fewer married men are antisocial. Married men are more responsible, less aggressive, less likely to do something illegal and more mentally healthy than single ones.Jane Eyre and Failure To Launch. But it's never been clear whether it's the marriage that makes men antisocial or whether fewer antisocial men get married. This has been documented in a bunch of studies and chronicled in such...

Lots of sex is not necessarily a prerequisite for a happy marriage

Lots of sex is not necessarily a prerequisite for a happy marriage. But apparently, if you are neurotic or the spouse of a neurotic, it really, really helps. That's the conclusion of a new study out of the University of Tennessee that followed 72 newlyweds for four years. People who are neurotic — those who tend to view life as a state invented so that bad things could happen to them — make substandard marital partners. It makes sense: if you judge all your experiences negatively, you're not...

Fertility rate here drops to new low

Fertility rate here drops to new low - - The bottom is falling out of Singapore's fertility rates - After inching to a record low of 1.22 babies per resident female in 2009, the Total Fertility Rate slumped to 1.16 last year based on preliminary estimates, taking the resident population further away from its natural replacement rate of 2.1 babies. The figure was disclosed by Deputy Prime Minister Wong Kan Seng at an Institute of Policy Studies forum yesterday. Sociologists MediaCorp spoke to...

Solve Premature Ejaculation With These Tips

Solve Premature Ejaculation With These Tips - Worrying that they climax too soon is one of the most common problems men write to me about so for starters it may reassure you to know that the average man lasts for just five minutes of full sex. I realise that if you barely get started before you climax, five minutes may sound wonderful, but at least it should reassure you that few men are lasting for hours, which is the impression given by lots of sex films and pornography. If you're...

Dieting while pregnant can lower your baby's IQ

Dieting while pregnant can lower your baby's IQ - Expectant mothers who diet during pregnancy are putting their babies at risk of low IQs and behavioural problems, scientists say.A new study found that cutting back on vital nutrients and calories in the first half of pregnancy stunts the development of an unborn child's brain. Lack of nutrients interfer with the way brain cells connect in the unborn babies Although the study was carried out on animals, researchers says the same findings...