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1. It takes more than money to raise a child 
   

   The Professor of Work and Organisational Studies at Sydney University says Abbott's plan would 'catapult Australia from having no scheme at all to probably being the best scheme in the world'. So why am I, a passionate believer in paid parental leave, not rejoicing?

   
   Issue 5 : Published 16-Mar-2010
2. Misdiagnosing Benjamin 
   The next edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders may merge Asperger's into the broader 'autism spectrum disorder'. The father of a misdiagnosed two-year-old boy reveals the emotional and social implications of mental illness pigeonholing.
   Issue 3 : Published 22-Feb-2010
3. Best of 2009: Breastfeeding is not obscene 
   Whether grotesquely augmented, stricken with cancer or tumbling unbidden from the frocks of soccer wives, breasts guarantee rapt attention. But never are these appendages more hotly debated than when they are being used according to their very purpose and design. October 2009
   Issue 25 : Published 11-Jan-2010
4. The sexualisation of boys and girls 
   The pro-rape website set up by students of a Sydney college may be attributed to a culture that peddles sexualised images to both boys and girls from an increasingly young age. When a young girl's body is stripped of its innocence, we all lose out.
   Issue 22 : Published 13-Nov-2009
5. Breastfeeding is not obscene 
   Whether grotesquely augmented, stricken with cancer or tumbling unbidden from the frocks of soccer wives, breasts guarantee rapt attention. But never are these appendages more hotly debated than when they are being used according to their very purpose and design.
   Issue 20 : Published 19-Oct-2009
6. How to ad-proof your kids 
   Every year children aged six to 13 spend around $328 billion of their own money, and influence another $2 trillion of parental spending. Children under eight are not equipped to understand an advertiser's intent. They take ads as helpful, truthful information.
   Issue 20 : Published 16-Oct-2009
7. Big broods and helicopter parenting 
   Big families are no longer fashionable, but they had their benefits. Vastly outnumbered, there's no chance for adults to practice the kind of helicopter parenting common to my own generation, where we hover over our one or two, soothing and solving.
   Issue 19 : Published 08-Oct-2009
8. Parenthood as religion 
   

   After my first child was born I was overwhelmed by a new appreciation for the work required to grow a single human being. History's catalogue of achievements now mean little to me. Man Walks on Moon? Big deal. Each day the headlines should shout, Woman Gives Birth!

   
   Issue 14 : Published 24-Jul-2009
9. Mem Fox and the parable of the green sheep 
   

   Working mums were 'offended' and 'disgusted' by Mem Fox's childcare slam. Other critics berated 'selfish mothers' and a society sick with affluenza. There was one word missing word from all the brouhaha: 'fathers'. (September 2008)

   
   Issue 26 : Published 13-Jan-2009
10. When life begins in an ICU 
    

    Photos of my son taken just after birth show an unconscious newborn fighting for his life. Last week, as the Victorian Abortion Law Reform Bill was passed in the lower house, I caught myself siding with Peter Costello.

    
    Issue 19 : Published 15-Sep-2008

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