Transforming Parents

A Straits Times feature examines how becoming a father alters men's brain biology and body shape, drawing on research into paternal changes. Coverage highlights that fatherhood triggers measurable shifts in hormones, brain structure and even physical form, challenging the idea that biological parenting changes apply mainly to mothers.

Writer Rashida Kouser has released her third book, 'The Cost of Modernity', which explores how childhood is being transformed by contemporary life. The book, covered by Greater Kashmir, looks at what children gain and lose as traditional upbringings give way to modern pressures, screens and shifting family structures.

A retrospective look at child car seat designs from the last hundred years highlights how dramatically child safety in vehicles has evolved. The roundup includes 13 designs that today would be considered unsafe or simply bizarre, underscoring how little regulation existed for decades before crash testing and safety standards transformed the products parents rely on.