This archive gathers 24 solutions-journalism stories on parenting — covering research-backed approaches, policy wins, and community programs that help families raise children with less stress and more support. From early childhood development to teen mental health, these stories report on what is actually working for parents around the world.
The government will pay for the most widely used methods to avoid pregnancy, such as IUDs, contraceptive pills, hormonal implants or the day after pill, for the nine million Canadian women of reproductive age, Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland said at a press conference. “Women should be free to choose the contraceptives they need without cost getting in the way. So, we’re making contraceptives free,” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said.
Aichi – which is home to Japan’s fourth largest city Nagoya – will become the country’s first prefecture to recognize non-heterosexual and common-law couples and their children as families under a “family ship” oath system that will come into effect on April 1. Those who take the oath will have the right to public housing provided by the prefecture and will have the right to give consent when a loved one needs surgery at a hospital managed by the prefecture.
Constitutional abortion rights became reality in France on Monday when lawmakers gathered at Versailles voted 780 to 72 to embed the protection in the nation’s founding document — the first country anywhere to do so. The amendment guarantees a “freedom” to abortion, language Prime Minister Gabriel Attal framed as a moral debt owed to generations of women, and a message that “your body belongs to you.” That night, the Eiffel Tower glowed with the words “my body my choice.” The move came as a direct response to the unraveling of Roe v. Wade, and it offers the world a powerful new template: lifting reproductive freedom above the reach of shifting politics, where it becomes structurally harder to take away.
Fathers in the U.S. have a growing preference for spending time with their children over working. According to Pew Research, dads spend three times more time with their children than two generations ago. Most of these men now see being a good father as central to their identity.
The new measure aims to offer Morocco’s working-class a paid parental leave of 15 days, up from the current three-day leave.
Before, abortion was only permitted if the pregnancy endangered the life of the pregnant woman, was the result of rape, or was conceived in an incestuous relationship.
Around 77.30% of voters in the tiny European nation approved the measure which would make abortion legal in the first 12 weeks of pregnancy.
Secondary school drop-outs in Tanzania will be offered the opportunity to resume studies in alternative colleges, part of a shift away from a disputed policy under which pregnant girls were expelled from school.
The country is expanding upon its public health policies surrounding reproductive rights and has unanimously approved a bill that gives mothers and their partners the right to paid leave following a miscarriage or stillbirth.
Many LGBTQ+ couples still have to pay six to 12 months of out-of-pocket expenses for testing to qualify for fertility services. Under the new law, insurers are required to cover these services immediately.
