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Childless by choice - a decision you may live to regret

Mariette Ulrich | 30 September 2012 |
tags: Canada, childlessness, demographic decline
Hot yoga and shopping trips to New York won't sustain you when you're eighty-plus and lying in a resthome.


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Baby-bedtime debates: cry it out vs no-cry

Mariette Ulrich | 29 September 2012 |
tags: babies, parenting, sleep
Australian “sleep training” study says it's OK to let babies cry. Hmmm.


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The Silver Sequence

Tim Golden | 29 September 2012 |
tags: fantasy, science fiction
The first in a fantastical science fiction series.


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Obama’s rhetoric on human trafficking

Sheila Liaugminas | 28 September 2012 |
tags: anti-trafficking laws, human rights relief efforts, Obama administration , US bishops assistance programs
He probably means what he says, or at least we should extend that presumption of goodwill. But he doesn’t say…


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How do American moms feel about working outside the home?

Carolyn Moynihan | 28 September 2012 |
tags: happiness, working mothers
A survey of 1000 women by Forbes found that working moms are, in general, “an unhappy lot”.


Homophobia: what does it really mean?

Zac Alstin | 28 September 2012 |
tags: homophobia, homosexuality
In discussing same-sex issues, let's scrap the labels and return to facts.


Free speech in America, death in Nigeria

Nwachukwu Egbunike | 28 September 2012 |
tags: Africa, free speech, Muslims, social media
It is time to stop defending inflammatory spite under the banner of free speech.


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The Internet: Apparently it’s a Big Deal.

Marcus Roberts | 27 September 2012 |
tags: Brazil, East Timor, Finland, Indonesia, internet, Malaysia, Phillipines, Russia, UN
A new report has found that one-third of the world's population is now online.


Neither “mere” nor “pere” under French gay law

Carolyn Moynihan | 27 September 2012 |
tags: France, parents, same-sex marriage
Mothers and fathers would officially cease to exist in France if draft gay marriage legislation promoted by the new socialist…


How to Get the Man of Your Dreams

Tamara Rajakariar and Jonathan E. Doyle | 26 September 2012 |
tags: books, dating, relationships
The author of a new book is quizzed about its big promise.


The right to life and Canada’s democracy

Margaret Somerville | 26 September 2012 |
tags: abortion, Canada
Today's vote in Ottawa about re-opening the abortion debate is also a test of political ethics.


What lies beyond conscience?

Michael Cook | 25 September 2012 |
tags: abortion, conscience, conscientious objection
Respect for conscience and conscientious objection is being eroded in the medical profession.


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The Midwife’s Apprentice

Margaret Hannon | 25 September 2012 |
tags: adolescence, girls, Newbery Award
I like to think that a Newbery award winning book is a sure bet.


AIDS and medical ethics: a great betrayal

Matthew Hanley | 25 September 2012 |
tags: HIVAIDS, medical ethics, philosophy
The risk reduction ethic only aims to sanitise and thereby perpetuate hazardous behaviour.


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Kids and chores: start young

Carolyn Moynihan | 25 September 2012 |
tags: chores, parenting
The amount of time children spend helping around the home has been dropping for decades. It's now about 20 minutes…


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