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Mothers are the great glue which binds society together. They organise, they volunteer, they nurture. And, when they are not around, you notice it. Look at any of those etiolated “communities” [...]

With over a half century of solid social science research now in, we know quite clearly that children do best by every measure when raised by their own biological parents, preferably cemented by [...]

My son was only two at the time, and we were walking along a busy street to the post office. As usual, I was holding his hand. We had not gone far before he began to tug his hand loose from mine. [...]

On Father’s Day my children gave me a card that said on the cover, “Happy Father’s Day, Dad. You know this family just wouldn’t be the same without you …” I was touched. I began to feel all [...]

We start the school year knowing that Australia’s educational standards are dropping and yet Australians, on a median basis, are the wealthiest people group in the world.1 Is more money spent on [...]

I’ve been there … [unlike the] critics who sanctimoniously imagine that they know what pregnant sexual assault victims really want and need. As my story shows, all too often, our self-appointed [...]

It happened many years ago, but I recall it still: I smacked my daughter for being rude to her mother. It was a light smack, but she was deeply hurt. “Daddy, I’m a good girl,” she said, cuddling [...]

The homosexual activists keep insisting that they just want to be left alone to do their own thing. They merely want the state out of the bedroom, they claim. If that were all they wanted, most [...]

As far as the American Academy of Pediatrics is concerned you can never drug children early enough. In their recently published guidelines they recommend that children as young as four can be [...]

The subject is finally getting mainstreamed. It took a whole generation suffering the ravages of family strife for it to make its way into the public conversation. Probably because the children [...]