A new proposal to pay parents of young children $50 a week to stay at home is worth exploring. Queensland Labor backbencher, Mr Gary Johns,…
Are all forms of living arrangements just the same? Do all family structures offer similar environments for a child’s development? Yes, according to the media.…
Centre for Independent Studies, 1992. It seems that the amount of pro-family rhetoric heard rises in proportion to the nearness of the March 13 federal…
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 am beginning to suspect a conspiracy. A conspiracy of silence, of cover-ups, of misleading information. A conspiracy of what? – ASIO nefariousness? American imperialism?…
Several weeks ago U.S. Vice President Dan Quayle caused a minor uproar concerning comments he made about television character Murphy Brown’s out-of-wedlock birth. The liberal-left…
The death of one of the 20th century’s most influential free market thinkers, F.A. von Hayek, provides an interesting example of how the philosophical/ideological differences…
The Australian Medical Association has recently come out in favour of a Victorian proposal to require people to report child sexual abuse. The proposal, made…
The Australian Institute for Public Policy, 1990. In 1987 George Roche, President of Hillsdale College in Michigan, wrote a valuable book called A World Without…
Loyola University Press, 1990. Choice In Schooling by American academic David Kirkpatrick is a detailed overview of the history of the idea of tuition vouchers.…
Multnomah Press, 1991. In America, as in Australia, we are “creating a cultural climate that wars against mother love”, says Dr Brenda Hunter, author of…
Macmillan, 1989. If one were to judge a textbook purely on its presentation, this book would fare very well. It is “student-friendly”, with plenty of…