Keywords: Mother And Child
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Brian Doyle
- 23 September 2009
My mother-in-law stood up on the night before her daughter
married me, held her glass aloft, and sighed, 'Let's just hope this one
comes off'. Some of the best toasts I ever heard were from children: 'Here's to all mum's husbands past
and present!' said one girl, aged 11.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 03 September 2009
Roo makes a quick buck starring in a porn film. Trisha and Katrina are arrested for shoplifting. Orton and Stacey
are runaways from an untenable home
life. Blessed finds hope in the cracks between mothers and their teenage children.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 23 April 2009
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Within the cloistered world of Opus Dei, a young girl, Camino, is dying.
The Church hierarchy and its emphasis upon a Father-God have
displaced the nurturing instincts of Camino's mother, who urges her daughter along the path
of suffering.
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AUSTRALIA
- Sarah Kanowski
- 13 January 2009
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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)
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AUSTRALIA
- Sarah Kanowski
- 10 September 2008
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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'.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Dimitrios Bouras
- 04 June 2008
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In Australia I had never been taunted because of my migrant
father, but after moving to Greece I was ridiculed and bullied because I was half-foreign, and because my mother was
entirely so. I began to do my best to deny her existence.
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AUSTRALIA
The leaders' election promises of more child care and tax breaks for private school fees were simply icing on a non-existent cake. And while the baby bonus is undoubtedly a welcome addition to the family purse, it's just that — a bonus. A 'generous' package filled not only with promise but problems.
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AUSTRALIA
- Joan Healy
- 04 September 2006
Four Josephite sisters and a child protection expert visit the western desert of South Australia. They hear that when parents cannot care for their children properly due to petrol sniffing and other factors, the 'Anangu way' is for grandmothers and aunties to step in. But they need financial support.
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AUSTRALIA
The new Welfare to Work legislation was implemented on 1 July. The St Vincent de Paul Society marked the day with a sad heart. National Council CEO Dr John Falzon says the new laws will see many people with disabilities and single mothers and their children pushed into greater poverty and indignity.
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Juliette Hughes
- 04 July 2006
My grandmother lost four children. Born in the 1870s, she lived the perilous life of a respectable married woman of the working classes in the early part of the 20th century.
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