Lesbian fertility rights
Two California doctors endure an eight-year legal vendetta for declining to help bring a fatherless child into the world. In the case of the lesbians versus their doctors, the California…
Europeans begin their decline in just 7 years
While some experts and officials harp on about the population explosion in the developing world, a problem is developing on their own back doorstep which is usually downplayed. This week…
Homeschooling: a learning experience for the whole family
Just recently, the California Court of Appeal for the Second Appellate District reversed its earlier ruling to make homeschooling in California illegal unless the parents had teacher certification. This ruling,…
Does making babies make sense?
Why so many people find it difficult to see humanity in a developing foetus. In December of 2005 an op-ed piece by sociologist Dalton Conley appeared in the New York…
Legalising polygamy for Muslims
An Australian Islamic leader has announced that polygamous marriages should be recognised by the Australian government. Keysar Trad from the Islamic Friendship Association of Australia said that polygamous relationships in…
Reasons without virtue
A claim that gay marriage requires only modest changes to family laws has a Swiftian air, minus the satire In its June 21-22 edition the venerable Wall Street Journal published…
Dignified arguments
The human embryo is very small, far smaller than the head of a pin. It cannot feel. It cannot think. It has no autonomous existence. And products derived from it…
From ‘safer sex’ to ‘safer drugs’
An official drug booklet used in some Australian secondary schools for two years has been withdrawn after an uproar in the community over its mixed messages. The New South Wales…
Gay Couples Find Marriage Is a Mixed Bag
As same-sex couples rush to “marry” in California (again) following a state high court ruling and before a referendum there on the subject, the New York Times takes a look…
The shameful history of population control
“The great tragedy of population control, the fatal misconception, was to think that one could know other people’s interests better than they knew it themselves,” says Matthew Connelly, summing up…
Obama preaches responsibility to black dads
Father’s Day in the United States brought some hard-hitting comment from black leaders. Presidential candidate Barack Obama preached a message of responsibility to black fathers at a church in his…
Can happiness be bad for your child?
For a few years, now, the British government, hounded by professionals and various do-gooders, has been exercised over the question of how to make children happier. To counter a veritable…