The experience of rearing a baby is a rite of passage for many families. The early years of parenthood are said to be the toughest however the benefits of a new addition to the family are believed to ...

Meet the women who paints human baby dolls and makes them look so life-like, that she sometimes struggles to let them go. Susan Gibbs, 49, a silicone artist from Canada, has been painting newborns ...

Would you like a hyper-realistic silicone doll that looks and feels just like a real baby, complete with umbilical cord? How about one with tattoos on its face? Or a baby alien from the film Avatar?

The lifelike silicone sex aids, which weigh around 25kg and can cost thousands of pounds, are being imported into the UK (PA) A surge in seizures of child-like sex dolls by border officers has led ...