* Family dinners, sleep and less tv reduces obesity - study
Young children should live as they did a generation ago to help prevent obesity, a new study shows.
* To raise happy kids, put your marriage first - new book 
Couples who want to raise happy and successful children should spend less time striving to be perfect parents and prioritise their own relationship instead
* Teen girls sucked into crime by older men 
More teenage girls are turning to crime and violence after becoming addicted to drugs and alcohol through their older boyfriends
* Kahui case: When will twins get justice?
The inquest into the deaths of one of New Zealand's most high-profile child killings has been postponed indefinitely.
* Smack those kids according to new US bestseller
ALL that firm but gentle persuasion and all those time-outs may have been a waste of time - you really should have been smacking your children.
* Counseling helps moms-to-be with abusive partner
A short intervention reduced repeat episodes of domestic violence among a group of pregnant African-American women.
* Abstinence classes might work: study
Educators are being asked to take another look at sex education for 11 to 13-year-old students in light of a recent study on abstinence 
* Children taught sex education more likely to have intercourse younger - study  
Children given lessons in safe sex are more likely to have intercourse younger, a study has found.
* Young families most likely to break up - Aust research
Couples who separate tend to be poorer, less educated and more likely to be unemployed or suffer from mental illness than couples who stay together, according to new research
* Fat parents to blame for childhood obesity epidemic by over-feeding under-fives, UK study finds
Overweight parents who simply feed their children too much at a young age are to largely blame for Britain’s childhood obesity crisis
* Studies point to latent problems in childcare
An escalating trend to place pre-verbal infants into childcare has sparked an inquiry by Children's Commissioner

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