family - marriage

Sex without consequences, a world without commitment

Christopher Tollefsen | 01 August 2008 | comment 7

A world shaped by contraception is one that is far from friendly to marriage and family.

Singapore’s fertility woes call for a rethink of sexual attitudes

Nick Chui | 31 July 2008 | comment 6

Frenzied attempts to boost birth rates in the city state ignore one key statistic: abortion rates.

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 24

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

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.

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.

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.

International Women’s Day: Marriage is not a compromise

Louise Brosnan | 07 March 2008 | comment 6

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

Sincerely sorry

Michael Cook | 24 February 2008 | comment 12

The thing Australians should really feel sorry about is trashing the Aboriginal family.

The missing headline: ‘Unmarried birth rate rises’

Jennifer Roback Morse | 19 December 2007 | comment 9

Why did the media make a hullabaloo about a rise in the teen birth rate and ignore a much larger rise in births to unmarried mothers?

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?

Dogs in prams

Carolyn Moynihan | 05 September 2007 | comment 22

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

The woman from Meath

Frank Brennan | 16 August 2007 | comment 12

A palliative care physician remembers a moment of love.

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