Two recent articles about teen crime in Victoria make for disturbing reading. But of more concern is that most of the “experts” seem to have…
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…
In much of the Western world, especially Australia, it does not matter so much which political party is elected into office, since often a deeply…
Touchy, touchy. That is the immediate reaction one gets to the latest comments by Family Court Chief Justice Alistair Nicholson. Speaking in Brisbane on Wednesday, Justice Nicholson…
Baker, 2004. I begin by reiterating what I said in part 1: much of the message of this book needs to be heard. But because…
Spence Publishing, 2002. America, like Australia, is struggling with the related issues of women in the workforce, childcare, maternity leave, and family breakdown. The usual…
Should we institute a scheme of paid maternity leave? I am going to argue neither for the affirmative, nor for the negative. Instead, I will…
Doubleday, 2001. This new book by the former Education Secretary under President Reagan is an examination of how the family is unraveling in Western society.…
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…
California, for those who know anything about that famous American state, is regarded by many as a land of fruits and nuts. All things weird…
The murder of two year-old James Bulger by two pre-teenage boys horrified England and the world. It seemed an anomaly. It was not. Shortly after…
Forgive me for being recalcitrant, but the Prime Minister’s Launch of the International Year of the Family on 6 December was at best, a complete…
The murderers of little James Bulger had a least two strikes going against them even before they embarked upon their lives of petty crime 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…
Bonus Books, 1989. A number of helpful books critical of feminism and the sexual revolution have appeared, including Midge Decter’s The New Chastity and Other…