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A father collapsed in a toy shop after he was bitten ten times by the UK’s most dangerous spider. Chris Galton had been shopping at children’s store Toys R Us with wife, Zoe, and one-year-old daughter, Imogen, when he suddenly became unwell and dropped to the floor. Bitten: Chris Galton, pictured with his daughter Imogen, [...]

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It’s been a banner year for Gary Barlow, between his successful stint on the X Factor, being honoured with a special National Television Award for his charity work, and taking charge of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee concert. And the good news keeps on coming, with the singer announcing that on Sunday that he is to [...]

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It’s half term and the boys and I are going skiing. My former father-in-law, Jonathan, takes us, along with his son and two grandchildren, to Courchevel for our annual dads’n’lads snow and tell: due to numerous divorces, besides mine, we don’t see much of each other during the year, so this is his way of [...]

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The 27-year-old university graduate, who was born a woman but has had treatment to change his gender, gave birth to a girl in March last year, and admitted he had had to cope with concerns from his family. He said his parents took the pregnancy well but added: “They seemed to be OK but I [...]

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A few years ago he was a roadie with a band, living what he admits was a rock’n’roll lifestyle. Today, 42-year-old Rob Hunt is training for the Catholic priesthood in a seminary in central London. It’s a very different way of life from what he’s been used to. Having been raised a Catholic, he stopped [...]

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The man, whose identity has not been disclosed, gave birth to a healthy baby girl in March last year. He was able to have a child after taking female hormones to reverse the effects of his female-to-male sex change treatment. He had been living as a man for five years and had legally changed his [...]

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It’s been a banner year for Gary Barlow, between his successful stint on the X Factor, being honoured with a special National Television Award for his charity work, and taking charge of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee concert. And the good news keeps on coming, with the singer announcing that on Sunday that he is to [...]

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One scooter enthusiast’s boy can boast the hippest ride after his dad pimped his sidecar to look like a classic Volkswagen Camper. The custom-built accessory was created by Jay Dyer, 44, for his 11-year-old son Kaine to sit in while they drive around the country. After buying the ‘skin’ in Belgium, Mr Dwyer spent seven [...]

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While his wife Victoria made sure her new collection had a successful launch in London, David Beckham took his three sons for a boys night out. Becks, 36, was accompanied by Brooklyn, 12, Romeo, nine, and Cruz, six, at the Staples Centre where they caught a basketball game between the LA Lakers and the Phoenix [...]

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We are parents to three boys, including a newborn baby. Ever since my eldest son (now five) has been able to speak, he has been actively hostile towards his dad. Now, we do find this quite funny, and ironic (given that Dad has far more patience and empathy than me), and laugh behind his back [...]

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Natasha Ozimek was 16, and two days away from sitting her physics AS-level, when her father John told her he was planning to change sex; a process known as transitioning. “It was awful when I found out. My throat was doing a wobbly and then I just burst into tears. Dad was trying to hug [...]

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A battling father has overcome more than 40 operations, beating six separate bouts of cancer, in just 13 years. Chris Underwood-Frost has seen off the multiple tumours on different parts of his body since first developing skin cancer on his shoulder blade in 1999. The 50-year-old Tory Councillor, from Gainsborough, Lincs, was told he had [...]

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Their relationship was doomed from the start. And after seven years of dating, Martin Kelly’s family still refuse to accept Kaylee Muldoon into their community – because she’s not a gypsy. As a result, the couple, who are also parents to one-year-old Johnny, live completely separate lives. The 23-year-old compares their scenario to that of [...]

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Adele will “spit” in her father’s face if she ever sees him again. The ‘Rolling in the Deep’ singer’s dad Mark Evans left her and her mother Penny when Adele was just three and she has had very little to do with him for in the last 10 years. Despite their issues, the 23-year-old star [...]

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A good few years ago, a controversial advertisement showed a vulnerable-looking young guy in a sweater, looking worried above his heavily pregnant belly. Designed to make men take responsibility for contraception, it was powerful because the image was totally bizarre. You couldn’t begin to imagine a man with a child growing inside him — could [...]

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A radical cleric described as Osama bin Laden’s right-hand man in Europe will be banned from taking his youngest child to school when he is released from prison, sources said today. Abu Qatada, who will be released from a maximum security prison this week while he fights deportation to Jordan, will not be allowed out [...]

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The strict father who became a YouTube phenomenon when he turned a gun on his foul-mouthed daughter’s laptop is standing by his actions, and he has a message for his critics. The 8-minute clip on the video-sharing site showed North Carolina parent Tommy Jordan lecturing his 15-year-old daughter Hannah about a complaint that the teen [...]

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A musician flown back to Britain with help from Evening Standard readers after a motorcycle crash in Bali has become a father. Richard Plummer is celebrating the birth of baby daughter Tiana only months after doctors feared he would never recover from a coma. Readers gave more than £3,000 to help fund an air ambulance [...]

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Mr Livie, 26, used the faint light on his mobile phone after his girlfriend Samantha Preedy gave birth alone and in darkness at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary. She managed to unwrap the umbilical cord from her son’s neck before shouting to her boyfriend: “I’ve dropped him, he’s in the pool and you need to find him.” [...]

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This week’s social media lesson, in case you missed it: be careful what you write about your parents on Facebook, even if you think they can’t see it. Just last Wednesday, Tommy Jordan posted this video to YouTube, in which he fires his .45 caliber handgun into his 15-year-old daughter’s laptop. In the video, he [...]

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After five years of watching vehicles speed through his village at up to 98mph, Kevin McCarthy decided something had to be done. Exasperated at the council’s failure to lower the speed limit or install a speed camera, he built a dummy camera on his land – and within a fortnight traffic speeds dropped. But the [...]

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The strict father who became a YouTube phenomenon when he turned a gun on his foul-mouthed daughter’s laptop is standing by his actions, and he has a message for his critics. The 8-minute clip on the video-sharing site showed North Carolina parent Tommy Jordan lecturing his 15-year-old daughter Hannah about a complaint that the teen [...]

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The man, who is believed to be in his 30s, was able to carry a child after taking female hormones to reverse the effects of his female-to-male sex change treatment. The Daily Telegraph understands that the man, whose identity has not been diclosed, is from the West Midlands and is in a long-term relationship. It [...]

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Mobile phones, “gender-bending” plastics, the Pill, and even laptop computers have all been blamed for reducing men’s fertility. A new study from Argentina, recently published in the Fertility and Sterility journal, has suggested that Wi-Fi radio waves can adversely affect sperm motility and inflict DNA damage. It is estimated that one man in five has [...]

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The Britain’s Got Talent judge stepped in to make sure sound recordist Mr Hagenstede, 44, made it in time to see the birth of his first child. Mr Hagenstede was working at the talent show’s auditions in Edinburgh when his heavily-pregnant girlfriend, make-up artist Lisa Stewart, 30, called him at 10pm on Saturday saying she [...]

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A British man is believed to have given birth, causing an ethical controversy. The ‘male mother’ started life as a woman but underwent a sex change. He is thought to have had the baby last year, while living as a man. Medical experts said that if the womb is not removed in sex change surgery, [...]

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A man is believed to have become Britain’s first “male mother” by giving birth despite his sex change operation. The man, thought to be in his 30s, had the child last year, said transgender support group the Beaumont Society. It is possible for transgender men who were born women, who still have functioning ovaries and [...]

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It showed a crying three-year-old Chinese boy forced to exercise in the snow in just his underpants. Posted on the internet by his father, the video of little He Tide shivering in -13C (9F) conditions while pleading for a hug has  now been seen by millions and  has sparked a worldwide debate about parenting. For [...]

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This is the adorable video of wide-eyed baby Charlotte being amazed by her father’s playful noises. The new viral clip has received over 300,000 views in just a few days, and shows a restless Charlotte on her dad’s knees looking in wonderment at the noises he makes, which appear to stop her crying. Dad Adam [...]

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This collection of photographs shows a man’s family and friends reacting to the news that he is going to be a Dad. Tom Robinson, 30, is a self-confessed gossip – he can’t keep a secret to himself. So when he found out his wife was pregnant he couldn’t wait until the three-month scan before he [...]

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Judges and lawyers are already anticipating the government’s proposed reforms to the status of separated parents by pioneering ‘shared residence orders’, according to a leading family solicitor. The orders, under which children are looked after by both parents, are becoming increasingly common, says Jonathan West, head of family and matrimonial at the firm Prolegal. Earlier [...]

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In the video, the little boy runs towards his father, who is filming him, in thick snow with only his shoes and underpants on, at times crying bitterly and pleading with his dad to take him in his arms. On several occasions, both parents tell their son to lie down in the snow, which he [...]

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“DO YOU WANT TO WATCH ME RUN AROUND THE FIELD?” said my dad (who is in the top 10 loudest men in the East Midlands). It was a curious question to be asked by a man in late middle-age, clad in slippers and baggy cords stained with brinjal pickle, and I wasn’t quite sure how [...]

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After more than a day of labour, Baby Finn forced his way into the world: 5lb 11oz, beautiful, healthy and wondrous. Dizzy with pride for my partner and son, I wanted to tell the entire world, one by one. Except, that is, for my own father. He’d made clear his lack of interest in our [...]

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Have you ever been asked to admit to the happiest moment in your life? I think it is supposed to be on your wedding day, or the moment you held your first-born child. It is the sort of question daughters are inclined to ask, and I remember shocking one of mine by suggesting that my [...]

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The Government is cranking into action on behalf of fathers, by setting up a working group to look at how to protect the right of children to see their dads in the event of a divorce, and vice versa – a right which in all too many cases is crumpled up along with the marriage [...]

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It was a day like any other. I got back from work, called out my wife’s name, Kim, and waited for my little boy, Jobe, then two, to come running up to me as usual. Nothing happened; the house was silent. The washing was still on the line, so I assumed they’d popped out. Day turned [...]

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Singles who long for children without the obligation of romantic involvement can now search for their perfect ‘co-parenting’ match online, thanks to a new website. Launched last week, Modamily calls itself: ‘The first online community to facilitate introductions between responsible, like-minded adults committed to co-parenting a child.’ So far the New-York based service that caters [...]

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Even now, I can still remember the exact spot in my bedroom where my mother was standing as she announced she was divorcing my father. My parents had been due to emigrate to Australia for a ‘fresh start’ after years of affairs, separations and recriminations. I was ten so I still believed in ‘happily-ever-afters’. I [...]

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Fathers will get improved contact with their children following divorce, amid plans to rewrite the law governing custody disputes. A ministerial working group will decide how to amend the Children’s Act 1989 and might include in it a “presumption of shared parenting”. The changes are part of an overhaul in family law that is described [...]

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New rules will be “much clearer that it is vital for children to have an ongoing relationship with both parents”, the Department for Education said. However ministers looked set to disappoint fathers’ rights campaigners by ruling out any legal guarantee of equal access. A review led by former mandarin David Norgrove last year rejected the [...]

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A mother eyed me curiously at my sons’ school fair, where I was manning the kitchen, baking baguettes and heating up soup. ‘You’re a real Beta Male, aren’t you?’ she said. For a moment, I thought I’d misheard her. ‘You mean a Better Male?’ I asked. ‘No,’ she replied. ‘A Beta Male, as in, not [...]

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A disabled pensioner has been kicked out of his family home by his 25-year-old daughter after getting his blind lover, 22, pregnant. Retired lorry driver Edward Taylor, 65, was told to leave the bungalow he shared with his daughter, Kelly, after beginning his love affair with young girlfriend Emma Gough. The unlikely sweethearts are now [...]

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When his son Daniel was given just months to live without a lifesaving transplant, devoted father David made a brave decision. His son was suffering from a rare liver condition and it was unlikely that surgeons would find a donor liver in time. So he decided to step forward and risk his life to donate [...]

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Parents who set up their own businesses would be in line for a £900-a-year tax break under plans for this year’s Budget being considered by George Osborne. The Chancellor is looking at extending childcare vouchers, which help 700,000 working parents save on the cost of a childminder or nursery, to self-employed mothers and fathers. The [...]

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The children have left home, the house is too big, the nesting years are over. What happens next? Do you set off together and roam the world, buy into a retirement development, or help the young get a foot on the ladder? The older generation own most of the property equity in this country, giving [...]

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Well flay me senseless with birch twigs in a banya if I’m not (yet again) out of synch with the real world. To join the list of all the other things I, rather unfairly, haven’t got – energy, toned upper forearms, a completed tax return – I must now add a househusband. Over the past [...]

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Housekeeping and exercise are both chores that, though essential, can be tedious to carry out on a regular basis. But one man believes he has found a solution that is both time-effective and fun: combining the two to create a cleaning regime that doubles as a workout. Steve Markovich, 57, from Crescent Springs, Kentucky, has [...]

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I’ve spotted them at the school gates, looking dazed and slightly dishevelled as they hand over packed lunches and field trip slips. Traces of glue stick to their fingers from a late night spent building a pyramid out of cereal packets for a class project. The stay-at-home dads used to be a rare sight but [...]

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The number of househusbands has tripled over the past 15 years, new figures have revealed. Last year, 62,000 men were classed as ‘economically inactive’ while their partners go out to work, compared to just 21,000 in 1996. This follows on from a recent survey which also found that there are 1.4million men across the UK [...]

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