Back in 2007 American columnist Diana West wrote an important volume entitled The Death of the Grown-Up (St. Martin’s Press). It was all about the…
“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!…
Connor Court, 2012. It is rather odd to have to pen a lengthy tome defending marriage and family; but then again, we live in rather…
In Part One of this article I very briefly laid out some of my concerns about libertarianism in general. I noted that as a Christian…
I have already briefly spoken to a quite appalling opinion piece by a noted feminist, but because of more pressing engagements – the celebration of…
There are very few solidly pro-faith and pro-family films out today. There are not many professionally-made Christian movies around. Courageous however is all this and…
If one took the time to dissect and critique every moronic opinion piece that appeared in our newspapers, one would never have time to do…
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…
Mother’s Day is almost here. It is a no-brainer to declare that mothers are important. But we live in a no-brainer age in which the…
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…
Crown, 2005. Since the 1960s, the Western world has embarked upon a novel and large scale social experiment: the demolition of marriage and the elevation…
This is a book about sex. More specifically, it is about the sexual revolution, its promises, and its failure. The sexual revolution, a subset of…
Mark Latham is partly right: there is a parenting crisis, but not exactly of the sort he envisages. Yes, children do seem to be more…
Fatherlessness is a growing problem in the Western world. Whether caused by divorce and broken families, or by deliberate single parenting, more and more children…
The West Australian Labor Opposition has called for the establishment of a children’s rights body. Various elements have been proposed, including a children’s advocate, a…
The proposal to allow limited surrogacy in Victoria should be resisted, for the sake of the children involved, the “parents”, and the common good of…
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…
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 Medical Association has recently come out in favour of a Victorian proposal to require people to report child sexual abuse. The proposal, made…
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…