Our guest on today's show is American mom-in-Paris Pamela Druckerman. She explains what she’s learned from bringing up bébé in France, and as her book title says, "Why French Children Don’t Throw Food". Also on the programe: priceless Mayan masks from Mexico go on show in Paris despite an international diplomatic spat, French designer Joseph Altuzarra wows New York fashion week, and OK Go are back with another crazy music video.
It has been a polarising issue in some countries such as the US, one that threatens to erupt during campaign seasons. FRANCE 24 takes a look at the status of same-sex unions across the globe.
French lawmakers are for the first time debating a bill to legalise homosexual marriage. Though the bill is expected to fail, the controversial issue could yet haunt the ruling UMP party in next year's presidential race.
We find out what everyday life is like in Ciudad Juarez, one of the most dangerous cities in the world. Two years on from the financial crisis on Wall Street, there are salary hikes on the horizon for Goldman Sachs employees, so have they learned their lesson? And her book on no-nonsense Chinese parenting has caused shockwaves round the world. We take a look at Amy Chua, aka the Tiger Mother.
In Thailand, the yellow shirts have joined the red shirts in the streets to put pressure on the government. Stanley Ho, one of the world's richest men, is suing his relatives in a row over shares in the firm that controls most of his fortune. And in India, becoming a parent over the age of 60 isn't so uncommon.
A lesbian couple’s ten-year legal battle looks set to continue after France's Constitutional Council upheld the country's ban on homosexual marriage Friday.
France's constitutional council upheld the country's ban on homosexual marriage on Friday, denying a lesbian couple with four children the right to wed.
France is being forced to reassess its ban on same-sex marriage as a lesbian couple’s ten-year legal battle (Corrine Cestino and Sophie Hasslauer, pictured) will finally be ruled on by the country’s Constitutional Council Friday.
His new film shows an idyllic father-son fishing trip to the second largest coral reef on the planet. The stars are a real-life father and son, and the trip to Mexico was conceived for the purpose of the film. Director Pedro González-Rubio tells Eve Jackson about Alamar.
They already juggle work, one or several children, a partner … and still find time to update their blogs on a daily basis? Who are they? They are blogging parents, and they share their daily family life online, often in an amusing fashion.
