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Family

  • Shaun Dooley in 2024

    Shaun Dooley and his son, Jack, look back: ‘He put a lot of effort into being a good dad. He still feels bad about being away on my third birthday’

    The actor and his son on fun memories, toxic masculinity and Saltburn spoilers
  • Illustration of a golden pineapple with a green spiky leaves at the top, on a white background

    Why do pineapples have spiky leaves and do sharks sleep? Try our kids’ quiz

  • Babies playing together on floor<br>GettyImages-138307580

    Olivia and Noah still most popular baby names in England and Wales

  • Kaitlin Palmieri in the outfit she never got to wear.

    Experience: my fiance died on our wedding day – and then I discovered his secret life

  • Judge illo 18th May - WEB

    You be the judge: should my mum let me drive her new car after I dented her old one?

  • An antique painting of a bride with her hands covering her face, with family members standing behind her

    I’m getting married but my father isn’t invited. How can I ensure he doesn’t crash the wedding?

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Opinion

  • Zoe Williams

    My stepfather-in-law is still happy at work aged 90 – what’s his secret?

    Zoe Williams
  • Paul Daley

    So-called ‘school refusal’ must be tackled with compassion, not hard-hearted discipline

    Paul Daley
  • Ranjana Srivastava

    A letter to my kids: sometimes, my love for you must feel conditional but on Mother’s Day, let me say that I love you

    Ranjana Srivastava
  • Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

    Mumsnet has its flaws, but the depth of experience shared on it is extraordinary

    Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
  • Arwa Mahdawi

    I hoped Peppa might be a role model for my daughter. But that little piggy is just a brat

    Arwa Mahdawi
  • Back to school. View from the back of a happy dad escorts his sons schoolchildren to school. Parental care for children.

    How can we expect mothers to return to work if we’re so reluctant to allow fathers to stay home?

    Myke Bartlett
  • Schoolboy leaving house with book bag on way to school

    Living opposite my son’s school has its advantages

    Séamas O’Reilly
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Advice

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    Ask Annalisa Barbieri
    I’m happily remarried, but am haunted by my ex’s long-ago betrayal

  • ‘I long to get back the dominant top that I married.’

    Sexual healing
    I married a top – but now he wants to be a bottom

  • Woman on the Morning Walk in the Nature Playing with Young Kooikerhondje Dog Throwing him a Ball

    Ask Philippa
    I’m worried my new partner won’t love who I really am

  • A driver inside a UPS truck

    Consumer champions
    UPS won’t accept return of £899 product it delivered

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Love & sex

  • Jasper and Ellen

    This is how we do it: ‘We’ll put on our sex playlist and change the lights to purple. It ignites a fire inside us’

  • Anona and Nadeem.

    Blind date: ‘My shirt went straight in the wash when I got home’

    Nadeem, 57, an academic, meets Anona, 59, an environmentalist
  • Gaby Hinsliff

    Sex education is now just another political football. For the children’s sake, the adults must grow up

    Gaby Hinsliff
  • Philippa and Jack

    How we met: ‘I cried because the bar didn’t have any pizza and he comforted me’

  • Arwa Mahdawi

    Can you be both straight and queer? You can if you’re Dannii Minogue

    Arwa Mahdawi
  • ‘I can action that for you going forward, my little summer squash.’

    Spice up your spreadsheets! Should you run your relationship like a business?

  • black and white photo of a man and woman cuddling

    ‘I often say the journey time is longer’: how to make sex after 50 work for you

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