family

From ‘pot’ to ‘skunk’: new verdict on a noxious weed

Barbara Kay | 29 May 2008 | comment 11

Authorities and opinion makers who embraced cannabis in earlier decades are having to smoke their words.

Experimenting with children’s sexual identity

Carolyn Moynihan | 29 May 2008 | comment 12

Gender benders are consigning more and more disturbed children to the path of sex change on the basis of a shaky philosophy.

Beyond same sex marriage

Jennifer Roback Morse | 20 May 2008 | comment 60

Civil unions, same sex marriage, then what? The final stop on this train ride is the complete de-gendering of society.

California court may not have the last word on marriage

Maggie Gallagher | 16 May 2008 | comment 74

America’s most influential state court has given the thumbs-up to same-sex marriage.

Misandry is the message

Barbara Kay | 15 May 2008 | comment 118

A Canadian columnist lifts the lid on the last respectable form of cultural bias.

Upstart nation provides workers for the world

Rosa Linda G. Valenzona | 13 May 2008 | comment 8

By insisting on its own demographic path the Philippines has an economic strength that much of the world now lacks.

Girls, unprotected

Melinda Tankard Reist | 08 May 2008 | comment 11

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 3

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

The mystery of evil

Carolyn Moynihan | 06 May 2008 | comment 31

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 17

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 13

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 13

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 7

Childlessness is not a tragedy, says an Anglican bishop.

Pope Benedict on marriage: key to world peace

Maggie Gallagher | 15 April 2008 | comment 10

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

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