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When parenting brings a paradigm shift

There were no indications during her pregnancy that Carol Nahra’s son would have severe, life-threatening disabilities. Here she describes the stages on her journey from shock to love and beyond.

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The conditional child

Deanna Fei asks what it means to sustain a life, drawing on her own experience of having a premature baby as well as an 18th-century essay.

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The poor child’s nurse

Charming family scenes in Victorian ads for children’s medicines were at odds with some of the dangerous ingredients they contained.

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Nurturing my autistic, gender-questioning child

As mother of an autistic child who questions her gender, Jude Lax describes cherishing her growing daughter as she explores her identity.

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  • Two photographs of a parent and baby either side of a message about better health: child vaccinations in Kenya. Colour lithograph by the Ministry of Health, ca. 2000.
  • A solitary unhappy child compared with a happy child playing with her parents: CHILD project in Uganda. Colour lithograph by the Uganda Nutrition and Ministry of Health, 1998.
  • "Anxious moments": a sick child, its grieving parents, a nursemaid and a medical practitioner. Oil painting attributed to John Whitehead Walton, 1894.
  • "Anxious moments": a sick child, its grieving parents, a nursemaid and a medical practitioner. Oil painting attributed to John Whitehead Walton, 1894.
  • "Anxious moments": a sick child, its grieving parents, a nursemaid and a medical practitioner. Oil painting attributed to John Whitehead Walton, 1894.
  • "Anxious moments": a sick child, its grieving parents, a nursemaid and a medical practitioner. Oil painting attributed to John Whitehead Walton, 1894.
  • Inoculation against cholera: two men in suits prepare to inoculate a child, surrounded by a crowd of (Indian ?) parents and children. Photograph, 1880/1900.
  • Healthy parents with healthy children, representing benefits of the National Socialist policy on the struggle against inherited diseases. Colour lithograph after F.Th. Würbel, 1936.
  • Healthy parents with healthy children, representing benefits of the National Socialist policy on the struggle against inherited diseases. Colour lithograph after F.Th. Würbel, 1936.
  • The secret is out, you can be Asian and gay : rejected by my family for not being straight, loved by my boyfriend for being gay / The Naz Project London ; photography by: Parminder Sekhon.
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