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Joanna Moorhead

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Joanna Moorhead

Comment: Breast may be best, but bribing mothers to nurse is not

There are many advantages to breastfeeding but should mothers be bribed to do it?

Pope Francis.

Pope’s welcome modern rhetoric must translate into action

There’s a sense right now that Francis is on the verge of moving on these fronts.

Find a husband: What’s feminism really about?

Susan Patton, criticised for her advice to female students, has stumbled on a truism ignored by feminism – having a career is not everything.

Melinda Gates.

Melinda Gates challenges Vatican on contraception

Billionaire philanthropist Melinda Gates has vowed to dedicate the rest of her life to improving access to contraception across the globe.

Stem cell science saves lives

Stem cell science saves lives

Blood donated from healthy babies’ umbilical cords is being used to treat diseases and it has also helped scientists’ further stem cell research.

Too young to be a woman

Girls now regularly start puberty aged eight or nine. How easy is it to cope at primary school?

A silence born of fear

A silence born of fear

Selective mutism is extremely debilitating but it can be treated, even later in life.

Is veganism safe for children?

Can a vegan diet damage your child’s health? Social workers in Lewisham, south London believe it can.

Ride of a lifetime

Ride of a lifetime

Rupert Isaacson believes an affinity for horses has transformed his autistic son. But is it too good to be true? Joanna Moorhead reports.

Drawing the bikini line on toplessness

Sunbathing topless is a French thing, whereas wandering around entirely naked is a German-Austrian thing

Online catharsis

For many people with serious illnesses, blogging offers a way to cope and share their stories, writes Joanna Moorhead.

Extreme childbirth

It’s 10am on a stiflingly hot Monday morning and I am in a delivery room with one of the unluckiest mothers on the planet. She is Dahara Laouali, and at the moment she is lying…

The shape of reality

Like every other Western woman, I am more than aware of what the idealised female body looks like. I see the taut celebrity tummies in magazines and pert breasts on TV. Although…

Honey, I shrunk the wrong kids

Amid a government campaign to persuade the nation’s children and their parents that they must stay fit and slim, a new British study shows that girls as young as five are unhappy…