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…
Pere Marquette Press, 1993. Several years ago when my then 5-year-old was attending first grade at a local state school, he came home with a…
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…
In a few days around 40,000 delegates will arrive in China to attend the World Conference on Women to be held in Beijing. The conference,…
Some 800 sexologists were asked at a recent world congress whether they would rely on a condom for protection if they had available the partner…
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…
A new Federal Government-sponsored pamphlet on how to talk to children about AIDS has been released by Family Planning Victoria. The pamphlet is titled, Talking…
A new social movement in America is advocating some very sensible policy proposals while arguing for pro-family values. The communitarian movement, as it is called,…
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…
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…
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…
Catholic Women’s League of Victoria and Wagga Wagga,1993. Book reviewers occasionally face the dilemma of having to review a publication that is in all respects…
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,…
Oxford University Press, 1992. In 1981 Paul Hollander published his very influential Political Pilgrims, a book which chronicled the journeys of Western intellectuals to Marxist…
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?…
Wolgemuth & Hyatt, 1991. Carol Everett was responsible for the deaths of 35,000 people. No, she wasn’t a Nazi. Nor was she a KGB agent.…
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…