Legalised prostitution: a failed experiment

Pauline Cooper | 09 July 2008 | comment 1

The Australian state of Victoria has sanctioned prostitution, turning it into a growth industry but doing nothing for women who want out of it.

Faithful husbands and fathers

W Bradford Wilcox | 03 July 2008 | comment 5

Churchgoing men are not a hangover of the old patriarchy but a new breed who are closely connected to their families.

As it was in the beginning

Joanna Bogle | 01 July 2008 | comment 24

Why sexual issues matter enough to cause a schism in the Anglican communion.

Legalising polygamy for Muslims

Bill Muehlenberg | 30 June 2008 | comment 28

Polygamy is a consensual arrangement among adults, says an Australian Muslim leader, so what can the West have against it?

Reasons without virtue

Robert Reilly | 28 June 2008 | comment 12

A claim that gay marriage requires only modest changes to family laws has a Swiftian air, minus the satire.

Who needs a family when you’ve got a government?

Brian Lilley | 27 June 2008 | comment 33

Instead of supporting the family, many governments are usurping its prerogatives

The new, improved, disposable father

Jennifer Roback Morse | 26 June 2008 | comment 38

Britain and Canada are well ahead in the race to make fatherhood completely redundant.

The shameful history of population control

Rosa Linda Valenzona | 25 June 2008 | comment 7

Countless millions of people in developing countries have been robbed of their human rights and dignity by a movement still regarded as humanitarian.

Cracks in the population consensus

Carolyn Moynihan | 21 June 2008 | comment 4

When the leading advocates of reproductive choice cannot agree, things begin to look interesting.

Ground for annulment

Ignacio Aréchaga | 20 June 2008 | comment 14

Why can't a court oblige a Muslim disappointed that his new wife is not a virgin? Marriages are dissolved every day for more trivial reasons.

Uncivil conduct

Nwachukwu Egbunike | 15 June 2008 | comment 50

Refusing to officiate at the celebration of gay civil partnerships may cost a British woman her job. 

Thanks for supporting family values, but what about the family?

Carolyn Moynihan | 14 June 2008 | comment 8

If strong, intact, loving families are so important, why don’t politicians have them, too?

The empty European village

Jennifer Roback Morse | 06 June 2008 | comment 24

Do countries with sub-replacement fertility need more government support, or less?

Have we hit bottom yet?

Kevin Ryan | 30 May 2008 | comment 9

The release of Sex in the City at least suggests that we may have reached terminal velocity.

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

Barbara Kay | 29 May 2008 | comment 13

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

Page 4 of 12 : « First  <  2 3 4 5 6 >  Last »

2009 latest

2008 latest

December

November

October

September

August

July

June

top issues

other issues

free updates

Email