Child Care

20 Feb 2013

Four men with offended design sensibilities established bloom, a brand of baby furniture of European design and precision engineering. They tapped a trend: its start-up in Hong Kong in 2006 led to...

Foster breastfeeding while promoting formula advertising code

12 Feb 2013

New consumer protection rules for marketing and advertising tend to run the gauntlet of free-market principles. In the latest example major manufacturers of baby milk formula have cited economic...

Delays in adoption cause permanent damage to children

6 Feb 2013

I refer to the report regarding the experiences of children adopted overseas ("HK orphans 'subjected to racism in Britain'", February 4).

Stay-at-home mums are not 'freeloaders'

6 Feb 2013

Two years ago, I was doing research for my TEDxWomen talk and I asked a 17-year-old student whether he thought his future wife would work. Having been raised by a strong, successful single mother...

Children lacking a voice in Hong Kong

29 Jan 2013

A policy address that wins applause is one with a vision, that attempts to balance the interests of different groups.

This year's policy address lacks vision and a holistic approach. It is...

Opinion

Wang Xiangwei

Super ministries may not be the right answer for mainland China

Alex Lo

Church developers remain unbowed by government rules

George Chen

A house is not a home until it becomes affordable

China's orphan saviour devastated by deadly fire (video)

Poor stallholder Yuan Lihai launched a personal war against China's lack of child care, but she may now face criminal charges of negligence over the deaths of seven children in her unlicensed...

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Too many women are still dying in childbirth

After a harrowing 36 hours delivering her daughter, Michelle Thompson faced yet another complication. Her cervix tightened so much that she suffered a retained placenta.

How my child was found wanting

"I want it!" My 2½-year-old son wailed again and again. He had worked himself up into a tantrum, and was unable to stop.

Birth order in family dynamics

Therese Tee is your archetypal first born - self-assured, driven, organised. When her parents divorced seven years ago, for instance, she worked carefully to ensure their paths did not cross at...

UN wants a children's commission in Hong Kong

Stories of malnourished children in Hong Kong range from the sad to the tragic.

Someone to watch over me

The day Wing's mother started work as a part-time waitress was his first experience of being left home alone. It was winter last year; he was eight years old, and his brother, Han, was just three...