Women avoid their fathers when they are most likely to get pregnant, a new study found.

Is this nature’s way to prevent inbreeding? Or is it just that girls steer clear of their overbearing dads when they'd rather be with their boyfriends?

Q: My wife is not interested in sex anymore, now that we have a baby.

I feel that for her it was like, "OK, I am pregnant...now no more sex". What should I do? Sachin, Bhopal

Auntyji says… Sachin beta, badhaiyan. Well scored. But stop right there for now, century ki zaroorat nahi hai. Now, worry not ji, this is perfectly natural.

In India, people who have sex before marriage rarely use condoms, a recent study found.

Only seven percent of young Indian women who have premarital sex ever use a condom. For guys the figure’s higher, but still just one in four ever used protection with a girlfriend. It’s down to lack of knowledge, embarrassment and trouble getting hold of condoms, the authors say.

The Indian government held a top-level meeting on Friday to discuss how to put the brakes on India’s sliding sex ratio, The Times of India reports.

The number of girls in India in relation to the number of boys has plummeted, even though a law to tackle the abortion of female foetuses was passed in 1994, banning sex determination in the womb.

Having an abortion doesn't make teenage girls more likely to feel depressed or bad about themselves, say US researchers.

Their findings clash with the standard thinking that abortion leaves some girls feeling eaten up by regret about not having the baby.

Roughly a third of all unsafe abortions in 2008 happened in South-Central Asia, according to the latest World Health Organization (WHO) estimates.

In India, three out of every five abortions are carried out under unsafe conditions. Yet abortion has been legal in the country for almost 40 years.

A sexual culture clash – that’s what inspired cartoonist Damien Glez when he came up with this cartoon drawn specially about Love Matters.

Don’t jump to conclusions about the sexy shadows in Glez’s drawing – everything in the cartoon has a double meaning.

1. I had hard sex. Could it have harmed the baby?

If you’re pregnant, hopefully it will end with you holding a healthy baby. But things can go wrong.

Around one in five pregnancies end in miscarriage. What are the first signs? What can you expect to happen if you have a miscarriage? Why does it happen? And how would you feel?

How can you do your best to make sure your baby develops well and is born healthy? And look after yourself at the same time? Here are a few of the most important tips. (And below them, some recipes for regret.)