KATE v KATHRYN - TO HAVE OR TO HAVE NOT?

Our writer Kate Richards is overjoyed to be pregnant - but writer Kathryn Kearns suggests having children is over-rated. Being childless is as good a choice for a woman as having children, says Kathryn, arguing that too often children come into the world for the wrong reasons.

So is it a Kat-fight? We mentioned Kathryn's views to Kate.

NO CHILDREN - NO WORRIES?

Kathryn Kearns
It's springtime, the animals begin to mate and you start to notice glowing, round-bellied women being cooed at by strangers and you wonder when that will be you. You long to start a family and to be running around after cute, troublesome little ones....Right?

TAKING THE PARENT PLUNGE

Kate Richards
So after years of deliberation, husband and I are finally feeling brave enough to take the plunge into parenthood. What I've found is the more you think about it, the longer you'll delay it. Let's be honest, there's plenty to put you off! The list of potential hurdles and problems is endless, so perhaps it's best not to go there now, since it's too late to back out!

WHY WOMEN NEED WATER

Jayne Howarth
Today (March 22) is World Day for Water. Another “awareness” day, perhaps, but one that has significant global importance.

There are one billion people who do not have access to safe, clean water and every year, two million people, most of them children under the age of five, die from diarrhoea.

FIT, FAT OR JUST FEMALE

Stacey Collins
When the Chief Medical Officer for England tells us that inactivity affects more people in England than smoking, alcohol misuse and obesity combined, we have to wonder whether fitness should be taken more seriously.

We have all seen the Change4Life morph-like creatures on the adverts that were issued by the government telling us to adapt our lifestyles.

LOVE OR FRIENDS - A CHOICE

Kathryn Kearns
As more and more celebrity couples air their dirty laundry on TV, we see wives and girlfriends in emotional turmoil deciding whether they should stay with their cheating partners or end it completely but what makes them want to stay?

TIGHTS FOR SPRING!

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Lace has been featured on the catwalks once again this season and looks set to stay! Beautiful and detailed lace designs have been featured as footless tights creating a distressed gothic look that is a big trend at the moment.

St Patrick's Day Special

It's St Patrick's Day on Wednesday and a chance to celebrate all things Irish. Here's a chance to win a couple of nights in Dublin in the four-star Ashling Hotel. All you have to do is find a leprechaun's pot of gold. Simply click here.

LOVING OUR MUMS - FROM THE HEART!

Stacey Collins
It’s hard to forget Mothering Sunday when we are surrounded by card shops blaring out messages of love and thanks that we could take home for our mothers for just £2.99.

The cards are getting bigger, the flowers pricier and the cuddly toys, which seem to mystically disappear from home the day after Mothers Day, tackier.

FEMINISM MAY NEED TO LOOK OVERSEAS

Staff writer
As the world marks International Women's Day, we ask what's its relevance.

That's not to say it's not relevant, simply that there's a big difference between the plight of women who are oppressed and abused in many countries of this world, and the, arguably, relatively subtle differences in pay and opportunity that upset some activists about the United Kingdom.

THE EQUINOX - WHEN MOOD SWINGS UP?

Stacey Collins
The rock band Death Cab for Cutie wrote about it, it happens once a year and it can have a direct effect on people’s moods, but what is the vernal equinox?

No, it's not the Queen’s Speech or the new title for the next Harry Potter instalment, but a posh way of saying ‘the first day of spring’.

CHEATING - IS IT CLEVER?

Jayne Howarth
Is Cheryl Cole nodding enthusiastically at the latest amazing “discovery” that less intelligent men are more likely cheat on their partners than their clever brothers?