The warnings of Christopher Lasch are just as relevant as ever: Just over 30 years ago the renowned American historian and a social critic Christopher…
Welfare dependency has been a real mixed bag: As governments increase in size and scope, so does the nanny state, and the turn away from…
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…
The ferocious assault on the family is now nearly complete: For decades now the radicals on the left have told us of their hatred of…
Christians need to think carefully about politics and economics: This article seeks to argue several related points. It will look at the old debate about…
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…
I have often discussed the various smaller pro-family and pro-faith political parties in Australia, and asked about the feasibility of some of them joining forces…
You might be forgiven for thinking that I got my title wrong, and that it is of course a one-child policy. Well that certainly was…
In a discussion with some politicians yesterday about the well-being of children and various political policies, I mentioned that it can sometimes be difficult to…
FaithWords, 2012. I love a paragraph found early on in this book: “We’re like tourists on a sunny beach. We’ve heard news of an earthquake…
Here in Australia asylum seekers are in the news almost on a daily basis. There has been a flood of boat people arriving under the…
The current American President has done more to undermine the institutions of marriage and family than any other US President. And he has also done…
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…
Three recent Labor Government activities and announcements have shown that the interests of the family are really pretty low on the priority list. Sure, plenty…
A review of Love and Economics: Why the Laissez-Faire Family Doesn’t Work. By Jennifer Roback Morse.
Spence Publishing, 2001. What does the free-market have to do with the family? What does libertarianism have to do with community? What does the minimal…
Given the overwhelming community rejection of calls to allow singles and lesbians to have access to IVF, the supporters of such a move have resorted…
Institute of Economic Affairs, 1995. Patricia Morgan, an English sociologist, here examines the social condition of the family in Britain and the US. She contends…
The Federal Government’s decision to include homosexual couples in its definition of family makes two things quite clear: it is especially eager to cater to…
The International Year of the Family Council has launched its first discussion paper entitled “The Heart of the Matter: Families at the Centre of Public…
With one quarter of the International Year of the Family already passed, an assessment of how it has thus far progressed seems in order. In…