Keywords: Mother And Child
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 07 June 2012
135 Comments
When Joe Hockey said on Q&A that the 'very best circumstances' for a child entailed having 'a mother and a father', Penny Wong, who has a child with her partner Sophie Allouache, replied 'I know what my family is worth.' It was a galvanising moment in the same sex marriage debate, which is not going away.
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AUSTRALIA
The Senate Inquiry into Forced Adoption has revealed heinous practices. The father of my children was adopted at birth, and as a psychologist I now counsel many who have been part of the adoption triangle. The role of fathers in cases of forced adoption is often overlooked.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Alison Sampson
- 02 November 2011
22 Comments
'Did I have a brother once?' asks a little boy, no longer sure. His mother's eyes fill with tears. 'Yes, darling. A long time ago, you had a baby brother of your own.' He shouts triumphantly, 'I did have a brother!' and runs off. We mothers glance at each other, then look away. There are no words.
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EUREKA STREET/ READER'S FEAST AWARD
- Julie McNeill
- 24 August 2011
4 Comments
Sociologist Eva Cox heard all the vitriol about boat people when, as a five-year-old Jewish girl, she fled Nazi Germany and headed to Australia. My nine-year-old mother was a different kind of boat arrival: one of 135,000 'child migrants' imported under the 'Populate or Perish' policy.
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AUSTRALIA
Sydney mother Grace Wang was left paralysed from the waist down due to a botched epidural. When I first heard her story I recalled my own epidural experience with my firstborn, looking fixedly down at the floor trying to ignore the blood pooling around my feet. Childbirth can be a murderous business.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Ian C. Smith
- 12 July 2011
1 Comment
His mother quoted Shakespeare, preferred her husband to their children, placing her faith in him, gin, and ghosts ... When she turned up breast cancer's card she hugged her suffering to herself.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
What's more unfeasible? The dim prospect of churches selling off real estate to house and feed and clothe the homeless, or elephants, webskidding with zeal?
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Ashleigh Green
- 22 December 2010
2 Comments
When we search in distant places for fulfillment and purpose, we can miss the value of the local experience. I recently spent time in Nganmarriyanga, a remote Indigenous community, where I was greeted by a child. 'This is the country of my mother,' she told me.
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RELIGION
- Frank Brennan
- 24 November 2010
67 Comments
Many same sex couples tell us their relationship is identical with marriage. We can ensure non-discrimination against same sex couples while at the same time maintaining a commitment to children's right to be born of and reared by a father and a mother.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 17 June 2010
Adoption is shown to be a tumultuous process, as joyful and painful in
its own way as pregnancy and birth. Lucy is unable to
conceive, but suspects that the motherly bond is about much more than
biology. Her husband Joseph, by contrast, values biology greatly.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Gillian Bouras
- 10 February 2010
11 Comments
Each unhappy family is unhappy in its
own way.
My family seemed happy enough, but when my mother died my father rejected his children. As I contemplated a reunion I wondered if he would recognise me. It had been seven years and he had recently been diagnosed with dementia.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 10 December 2009
4 Comments
Max has an erratic imagination, and is prone to extremes
of emotion. There are hints of mental illness, but, really, he is simply Every Child. Following a ferocious fight with his mother, he flees into fantasy and becomes king to a group of melancholic monsters.
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