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If there was an order of Nuns campaigning for this, on the basis that it was a good path out of poverty for fallen Irish women, we all know what these politicians would be saying.
What we have, with surrogacy, is a legal severing of the natural ties between birth mother and child.
Three years ago this week, those of us who voted for, and campaigned against, the abortion referendum, were on the wrong side of an electoral kicking. The voters, in their questionable wisdom, decided to vote for what the Yes campaign said would be a more compassionate Ireland for women. Many of our readers will regret […]
After all, what parent wants their son or daughter sending, seeing or sharing nude pictures and sex videos?
As we reported yesterday, Aontú leader Peadar TóibÃn has introduced a bill to the Dáil which seeks to prevent the distribution of pornography to children by media companies, including internet service providers. It’s a worthy goal. Here he is, explaining it in more detail: Internet companies are providing hard core pornography to children as young […]
Studies show authority and love are both crucial In the early 1960s, when America was on the cusp of social upheaval that would challenge authority at all levels, a University of California, Berkeley psychologist named Diana Baumrind began a longitudinal study aimed at answering a still timely question: How does our parenting style—including our practice of authority as […]
Last week the Italian parliament passed a bill aimed at boosting the country’s low birth rate by supporting parents. “We have approved the Family Act to support parenting, combat the falling birth rate, encourage the growth of children and young people, and the help parents reconcile of family life with work, especially for women,” Premier Giuseppe Conte […]
I remember reading headlines not too long ago, around the beginning of this year, that some virus had broken out in China and they were in the process of building a hospital to deal with the outbreak, and they built that hospital in three days! I remember being in awe at the thoughts of it, […]
Since Charles Darwin came up with the theory of evolution in the middle part of the 19th century, explanations for the physical differences between men and women have been relatively constant. Thousands of years of evolution, it is generally posited, explain the differences between the sexes, because of the different roles to which our bodies […]
Irish parents, and indeed parents worldwide, now live in a world where their children, as soon as they are old enough to access the internet, are never more than two or three clicks away from the most hardcore pornography. The normalisation of pornography over the past thirty years, and the consequences of that, has been […]
Polls show most parents watch a REAL choice when the kids are young, not just more daycare, so why do Katherine Zappone and the government act as if they know better than parents?
Parents have hit back at Minister Katherine Zappone, saying her comments on the RTE investigates creche exposure are meaningless as long as the government policies remain fixated on childcare while punishing parents who raise their own children at home.
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