It's the new millennium! The basic necessities have expanded far beyond food, shelter and clothing. Now it's daycare, surrogate parents, leisure-time activities for kids and so on.

As an enterprising young publisher, you realize that a magazine market gap exists, and that you can fill it with a monthly publication aimed directly at young, working parents.

Potential topics to be covered in each issue might include:

• childhood nutrition
• daycare
• pre-schools
• abortion
• verbal and sexual abuse
• adoption
• surrogate parents
• kids and drugs
• AIDS
• traditional sex roles
• kids' clothing styles
• toys and other leisure activities (e.g., video ratings and reviews)
• single parents
• fiction
• poetry
• behaviour training
• dealing with special needs children