Organisations concerned about over-population seem to have their views presented in the media quite often. They regularly appear in the press expressing fears about over-crowding…
A new Federal report has been released which puts marriage back on the public policy agenda. The report, To Have and To Hold: Strategies to…
In the brave new world of the 1990s, a number of emerging technological possibilities pose a threat to the family unit. The ability to ascertain…
The latest ABS catalogue on marriage and divorce says that 4 out of 10 marriages will eventually end in divorce. Over the years the divorce…
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…
Institute of Economic Affairs, 1992. The debate about whether there are any deleterious effects of broken homes and fatherless families is pretty much over in…
The Australian Education Union has just proposed that AIDS and sex education classes become compulsory from the earliest years of primary school. It wants homosexuality…
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…
Michael Joseph, 1994. Dr Penelope Leach of the UK, a world-renowned child psychologist, has just written a new book entitled Children First. It’s a pretty…
The Rockford Institute, 1988. “We are busily unmaking one of the proudest social achievements in the nineteenth century, which was to take married women out…
The United Nations has declared 1994 to be the International Year of the Family. The UN has said that the main purpose of the Year…
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.…
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?…
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…