It's so much easier to count our disadvantages than tot up the mitigating circumstances that generally outweigh the despair.

Sustaining true friendship is a lot more challenging than we give it credit for.

From Mozambique to Chad, South Africa and Liberia, Sierra Leone to Burkina Faso, feminism is the buzzword for a generation of women determined to change the course of the future for themselves and their families.

Too often we forget that an ideal partner is someone who enhances an already full existence.

We invest less in our friendships and expect more of friends than any other relationship. We spend days working out where to book for a romantic dinner, weeks wondering how to celebrate a partner or parent's birthday, and seconds forgetting a friend's important anniversary.

With longer life spans and better health and education, many feel that giving birth to a baby a mere couple of decades after they themselves were in the cradle is a little premature.

It's so much easier to count our disadvantages than tot up the mitigating circumstances that generally outweigh the despair.