Whether it’s dating apps, doom-scrolling, delayed rites of passage, lofty living expenses ... “Europe’s fertility crisis” or Japan’s birth rate “plummeting to a new low,” among ...

As I stood waiting for the sun to rise over the Great Rift Valley and the climax of Shadrack’s passage to manhood ... regardless of the sex ticked on a birth certificate.

Hospital policy and physicians’ directives prohibited the father’s presence at the birth of his own child. The father of the 1950s was left outside to wring his hands and add yet another cigarette to ...

Just about every man remembers his first fight. It’s a common rite of passage. Mine was when I was 8 years old, on the school bus, with a classmate who was teasing my younger sister. I stepped ...

The Sacred Thread ceremony is a ceremony for boys in some Hindu communities to confirm they are of an age to take on religious responsibility. Girls are sometimes honoured in the same way, but it ...

On the seventh day after birth, the child's head is shaved. This is called Aqiqah and is performed as part of the naming ceremony. Many Muslims view Aqiqah as desirable, but some see it as compulsory.

Whether it's dating apps, doom-scrolling, delayed rites of passage, lofty living expenses ... AMERICANS ARE HAVING FEWER BABIES AS BIRTH RATE HITS HISTORIC LOW, CDC REVEALS Writers Noel King ...

Just about every man remembers his first fight. It’s a common rite of passage. Mine was when I was 8 years old, on the school bus, with a classmate who was teasing my younger sister. I stepped ...