Broken heart risk management

Jennifer Roback Morse | 12 October 2007 | comment 15

Denying the differences between men and women is an interesting academic pastime, but in practice the cost of being wrong can be very high.

Girls Gone Mild

Pauline Cooper | 12 October 2007 | comment 3

Good girls are throwing off the shackles of the manufactured bad girl image and reclaiming self-respect - even if their mothers don't understand.

How the West might find God again

Mary Eberstadt | 08 October 2007 | comment 35

It is assumed that the West turned against religion and then lost interest in marriage and children - but there is evidence that the reverse could also be true.

The ultimate miserabilist

Michael Cook | 02 October 2007 | comment 30

Just when you thought philosophers couldn't get any more pessimistic, one of them surprises you. 

Science, myths and same-sex parenting

Dale O'Leary | 02 October 2007 | comment 19

Research shows that children do best when raised by a mother and father. But what about those studies that show they do just as well with two mommies or daddies?

Balancing feminism and femininity

Margaret Somerville | 30 September 2007 | comment 6

However politically incorrect it may sound, nature meant women and men to have complementary roles and mentalities.

The fire zone of gender theory

Theron Bowers | 21 September 2007 | comment 8

A scientist writes a book about the transgender phenomenon and ends up losing his university job.

The pill: net benefit or dead loss?

Carolyn Moynihan | 20 September 2007 | comment 4

A study finds that the contraceptive pill may slightly reduce the risk of getting cancer. How excited should today's young women be?

Dispossessed and forgotten: the new class of genetic orphans

Margaret Somerville | 18 September 2007 | comment 15

Being a mother or father used to be the only bond you could not break -- until the arrival of reproductive technology.

A ‘Nazi moment’ for Eva

Carolyn Moynihan | 14 September 2007 | comment 43

A blunder by German motherhood campaigner Eva Herman will be hard to live down. It's a pity, because her message deserves to be heard.

Where political incorrectness reigns

Martyn Drakard | 14 September 2007 | comment 15

The Ugandan government is defying the West with its intransigence over gay rights.

Back to school: a conversation about tattoos

Mary Sheehan Warren | 07 September 2007 | comment 26

More notes on fashion, flesh and focal points from the Bureau of Humiliation and Embarrassment.

Dogs in prams

Carolyn Moynihan | 05 September 2007 | comment 22

Childless Japanese women push the country's culture of cute too far.

Marriage deserves more because it gives more

Chris Meney | 31 August 2007 | comment 15

The continued provision of preferential support for parents and children over other types of unions is vital for society.

Abstinence education: are we asking the right questions?

Jokin de Irala | 22 August 2007 | comment 4

Research findings seem to show that abstinence only education "doesn't work". Surely that means we have to make it better, not just give up.

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