Sunday 11 November 2012
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Hillary Clinton for president in 2016?
Could the former First Lady run for president? Cathy Newman believes Hillary Clinton's age and experience would be her greatest qualification for the job.
Woman's Hour's 100 most powerful women
The Radio 4 programme is on the hunt for the 100 most powerful women in Britain. Ruth Watts, the show’s producer, explains why.
How can I help my toddler conquer her fear of crossing roads?
This week, a mother asks how she can help her daughter overcome her fear of traffic. Please weigh in with your advice below.
Immigration does not approve of my daughter’s name
My daughter has taken my surname and her father’s as her middle name. Now my husband has been warned about travelling alone with our child without her birth certificate. Surnames are tricky business, finds Sally Peck.
How can your mother love you if you are adopted?
National adoption week: Barrister David Sherwood is proud to be adopted, and explains why it doesn't matter who you are, or where you come from, as long as somebody loves you.
How dressing like Spock helped me and my daughters survive my cancer
So much about having cancer is about how you cope; that’s what helps other people figure out how to talk to you, says Suellen Khoury, who credits her two teenage daughters with helping her to get through a mastectomy, chemo, and losing her hair.
Help! My nine-year-old wants to be a vegetarian
When your nine-year-old daughter becomes an animal rights activist, how do you cope at dinner time?
Two thirds of parents with disabled children turn down promotion
Two thirds of parents of disabled children have turned down a promotion or taken a lower paid job to balance care and work, according to a new study.
'My husband has premature ejaculation: what pills will help him?'
In her weekly agony aunt column, Dr Petra Boynton says misleading information about sex can make men think they have premature ejaculation when they don't. There is no use rushing to buy 'solution' pills, she says.
Mr and Mrs Puffin: couples fuse surnames in trend
Hundreds of British married couples are blending their surnames in a new trend that sees Mr Pugh and Miss Griffin become Mr and Mrs Puffin.
Getting married is simple, but changing your name is a bit complicated
Blending surnames – or meshing - as it’s properly called down the Deed Poll office - is the new thing to do. All the cool young newlyweds are at it. Except me, writes Emma Barnett.
Why 50 Shades of Grey is off the menu this Christmas
50 Shades of Grey is the latest sex book to have dominated the national discourse during 2012. Dr Brooke Magnanti just hopes she can finally bid farewell to the EL James bestseller come Christmas.
Outing couples who have IVF treatment
In last week’s parenting dilemma, a mother sought advice on how to deal with a friend who betrayed her trust by revealing to a mutual acquaintance that the mother’s first child had been conceived using IVF treatment.
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