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  • Saturday, 19 March, 2022
    How To Spend It
    How a remote programme transformed my baby’s nightmarish sleep cycle

    The Batelle method guarantees to get babies on a 7pm to 7am sleep schedule. One exhausted writer puts it to the test  

  • Tuesday, 8 March, 2022
    FT MagazineMadhumita Murgia
    My phone was controlling me, so I went on a digital diet

    For two weeks I tried to build a new healthier relationship with technology — with mixed results

  • Tuesday, 8 March, 2022
    Brooke Masters
    Rewriting the post-Covid contract for dual-career couples

    Opportunities and hidden traps are emerging

  • Tuesday, 8 March, 2022
    Special ReportWomen in Business
    Why US mothers deserve a $2,400 pay cheque

    ‘Having it all’ too often means ‘doing it all’, argues Girls Who Code founder Reshma Saujani

  • Wednesday, 2 March, 2022
    Tax
    Higher earners still facing tax bills over child benefit claims

    HMRC needs to do more to bridge gap in awareness, says OTS

  • Sunday, 27 February, 2022
    Emma Jacobs
    Is fertility a topic for the workplace?

    All the policies supporting motherhood will fail if the corporate culture is hostile

  • Friday, 18 February, 2022
    Jo Ellison
    Naomi Campbell’s baby and the myths of the older parent 

    For many women, the resounding certainty of one’s declining fertility puts hard roadblocks on one’s ambitions

  • Wednesday, 2 February, 2022
    FT MagazineAlice Fishburn
    The kids aren’t alright — and neither are their parents

    As Omicron burnt through the population, children proved easy tinder. The silence from politicians is deafening

  • Thursday, 27 January, 2022
    Ageing Populations
    Half of women in England and Wales do not have children by age 30

    Lower levels of childbirth among twenty-somethings ‘likely to continue’, data show

  • Sunday, 5 December, 2021
    Flexible working
    Family-friendly leave policies are key to staff retention

    Employers who support paternity breaks and promote flexible working are likely to stand out in a competitive labour market

  • Friday, 26 November, 2021
    Emma Jacobs
    Multitasking MPs must be allowed proper maternity cover

    Constant juggling between home and work life is dreadful, but occasional flexibility is necessary

  • Friday, 15 October, 2021
    Camilla Cavendish
    Falling birth rates are a problem but stop blaming women

    Failed government attempts to cajole people into having children ignore the bigger picture

  • Tuesday, 5 October, 2021
    Sarah O'Connor
    The mysterious decline of our leisure time

    Between blurred work/play boundaries and a greater focus on childcare, we have fewer free moments to use as we like

  • Friday, 24 September, 2021
    FT MagazineRobert Shrimsley
    How to survive an empty nest

    ‘There are long periods of inactivity but duties and responsibilities can be switched on again at any moment’

  • Wednesday, 22 September, 2021
    Emma Jacobs
    Coping with the chaos that is hybrid working

    ‘Back to the office is not a return to an old schedule — and no one really knows how to do it yet’

  • Thursday, 12 August, 2021
    FT Magazine
    One year in the lives of four couples separated by the pandemic

    How do you stay together when you’re thousands of miles apart?

  • Friday, 30 July, 2021
    News in-depthCoronavirus economic impact
    ‘Back to the 1970s’: Summer camps hobbled by staff and supply shortages

    American vacation staple struggles with kinks of an economy emerging from the pandemic

  • Thursday, 29 July, 2021
    Serious MoneyClaer Barrett
    Could hybrid working make or break your finances?

    Moving further afield might hit your pay and make it harder to get a mortgage

  • Wednesday, 21 July, 2021
    Seth Flaxman
    The million Covid orphans must not be left behind

    The children who have lost a parent in the pandemic need urgent government support or they face long-term harm

  • Thursday, 15 July, 2021
    Special ReportDelivering for the World’s Children
    We need a specific humanitarian system for the protection of children

    Financing must match the challenges the young face in education, protection, health, and hygiene

  • Friday, 2 July, 2021
    Best FT Weekend long reads of 2021
    How Britain’s private schools lost their grip on Oxbridge

    As state-school admissions rise at elite universities, some parents who shelled out for private education regret it

  • Thursday, 17 June, 2021
    State of Mind special
    ‘Our children are coming to terms with a different life’

    Covid has badly hit kids’ mental health, but schools and psychologists are finding creative ways to help

  • Tuesday, 15 June, 2021
    FT MagazineJoshua Chaffin
    What the pandemic taught me about being a better father

    ‘I am fathering so well I am nearly mothering’

  • Thursday, 10 June, 2021
    John Lewis Partnership PLC
    John Lewis to offer equal parental leave to all staff

    Department store chain will be largest retailer in UK offering six-month benefit to new parents

  • Monday, 10 May, 2021
    Patti Waldmeir
    US women consider parenting alone after coronavirus

    The pandemic has seen a small but growing number decide to have children on their own

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