family

Girls, unprotected

Melinda Tankard Reist | 08 May 2008 | comment 6

The insertion of long-acting contraceptives into the bodies of young girls does not protect them from sexual abuse. It sets them up for greater exploitation.

Counter-cultural motherhood

Kate Bluett | 07 May 2008 | comment 2

Mother's Day arrives again with its uncertainties, pressures and a declaration of faith.

The mystery of evil

Carolyn Moynihan | 06 May 2008 | comment 25

The crimes of Josef Fritzl cannot be explained within our normal secularist assumptions about the world.

A tale of two sisters

Joanna Bogle | 02 May 2008 | comment 14

In the mad world of 21st century relationships the home of two sisters incurs a tax while that of ‘civil partners’ is exempt.

Polygamy by any other name

Carolyn Moynihan | 26 April 2008 | comment 12

A religious sect is being prosecuted for under-age sex and marriage. A lot of other people should be feeling uncomfortable.

Australia’s marriage gap

Angela Shanahan | 25 April 2008 | comment 3

It is not middle-class women who are ending up on the shelf but their less educated sisters.

Porn again

Helena Adeloju | 17 April 2008 | comment 12

A report by three Australian academics tries to convince us that women are shaping a new and ethical porn industry.

The ethics of defying nature’s plan for parenting

Tom Frame | 16 April 2008 | comment 4

Childlessness is not a tragedy, says an Anglican bishop.

Pope Benedict on marriage: key to world peace

Maggie Gallagher | 15 April 2008 | comment 8

As the Pope begins his visit to the United States there is one topic he is certain to speak on.

Hillary Clinton’s family manifesto

Francis Phillips | 19 March 2008 | comment 3

It is ten years since she published "It Takes a Village", and Mrs Clinton still sounds the same.

It takes a family

Jennifer Roback Morse | 17 March 2008 | comment 13

If it takes a village to raise a child, what does it take to raise a village?

In the Congo, you can’t survive without a family

Gaston Asitaki | 08 March 2008 | comment 6

The African family can teach the West a few lessons, says a Congolese lawyer. 

International Women’s Day: Marriage is not a compromise

Louise Brosnan | 07 March 2008 | comment 5

Thirty-five? Or worse, 40, and unmarried? Should a girl give up on romance and settle for someone who will take out the trash?

International Women’s Day: Recovering a sense of women’s dignity

Helen Alvare | 06 March 2008 | comment 2

In the name of freedom women have connived in reducing their sex to a consumer object. It is time to look for a new path to liberation.

Demographic winter

Don Feder | 05 March 2008 | comment 10

The Earth might be warming up but its people are going cold on their own future -- and no-one in authority seems the least bit concerned.

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