Oxford University Press, 1992. In this volume 26 authors examine the social and economic consequences of divorce in a number of Western nations and in…
I notice that an American reality TV show about divorce called Untying the Knot is now on Australian television. It seems to have aired in…
Centre for Independent Studies, 2003. That marriage is in trouble few would deny. But whether this is something to lose any sleep over is not…
Polity, 2022. The secular case against the sexual revolution: Over the past few decades there have been a number of excellent works critiquing the sexual…
Yes marriage and family really do matter: It was the Roman statesman and orator Cicero who said some 2000 years ago: “Marriage is the first…
One of the many very incisive things that novelist and essayist George Orwell had to say is this: “We have now sunk to a depth…
“The poor fatherless baby of eight months is now the utterly broken-hearted and crushed widow of forty-two! My life as a happy one is ended!…
For over fifty years now the social sciences have been telling us with the utmost clarity that there is no better guarantee of a child’s…
Today we see a steady erosion of freedom, especially freedom of speech, in much of the West. This is most often seen in the assault…
After our recent gathering of experts in Canberra for the 2020 Summit, I did not recall seeing any reports about one very pressing social problem…
It had to come to this. Add one part political correctness, two parts social engineering, and three parts biotechnology, and what do you get? The…
We live in a culture that no longer believes in the importance of marriage. Indeed, we have moved from being a culture of marriage to…
Hodder & Stoughton, 1995. In 1956 the Harvard sociologist Pitirim Sorokin wrote: “This sex revolution is as important as the most dramatic political or economic…