Writer Heather B. Armstrong suffered from treatment-resistant depression for years and fell so far into the well she concluded she “wanted to be dead.” A study including a powerful anesthetic drug investigating an alternative to electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) turned that around.

Is a teenager capable of making proper decisions about their medical care when in the grips of a potentially deadly addiction? In a life-threatening situation, parents have the right to know, Ben O’Hara-Byrne writes.

The proportion of mothers who had one child at the end of their child-bearing years doubled from 11 per cent in 1976 to 22 per cent in 2015, according to the Pew Research Center in the U.S.

There’s something significant about marking the transition from girlhood into womanhood. Something more than nail polish and hair supplies. It’s an opportunity for us, the women who have gone before, to say, welcome, writes Kelly Fig Smith.

Four women tell Star Vancouver how and why they ended pregnancies.

Drop expectations that the meal has to be Instagram-worthy

An autistic seven-year-old turns out to be the perfect travelling partner.

There’s no one way to be a dad, they say, and fathers are nurturers, too.

A playwright, a power line technician, a founder and an economist find common ground.

How I ended up in a theatre watching The Secret Life of Pets 2, feeling as though the main story line of the film was speaking only to me.