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Less Catholic than the pope

‘Catholic’ education thrives in Belgium, but the decision between principle and pragmatism is not easy when choosing a school.

In multicultural families, deciding on where to raise your child is no easy matter and has profound implications for the future.

Marriage and fatherhood bring out the best in some. But for many it’s an unbearable weight, and so they leave.Why is this?

Barring men from the delivery room will not make giving birth any easier. In fact, it is a case of throwing out the father with the bathwater.

Do you breed people like Nick Cave, or do they grow organically? Some adults and children are just more in tune with their surroundings.

The Swiss minaret ban doesn’t mean European Muslims are persecuted, but it makes me worry for the Europe my son has been born into.

Much as we’d like our children to hold the same things dear as we do, we should have enough faith in them to let them choose their own belief system.

Could pregnancy outside the womb save women the pain of labour and herald in a new level of gender equality?

A revolution is on the way and it’s going to change everything – in our house.

The Dutch parliament is considering whether protecting unborn children should supersede the rights of parents to procreate.