This is an extract from an article published in the Family Law Quarterly Vol. 45, No. 3 (Fall 2011) p. 329-352. Re-printed with permission. INTRODUCTION Societies around the western world are facing a series of crises and difficulties that will profoundly affect the younger generation, and children yet to be born. This Article suggests that […]

This article originally appeared in Public Discourse Ethics, Law and the Common Good, the online journal of the Witherspoon Institute of Princeton, NJ (available at www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2012/06/5640). Re-printed with permission. Two new peer-reviewed studies show that family structure matters and children do best when reared by their married biological mother and father. The widely circulated claim that parents […]

This article originally appeared in Public Discourse Ethics, Law and the Common Good, the online journal of the Witherspoon Institute of Princeton, NJ (available at www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2012/03/4925). Re-printed with permission. A detailed look at how working-class adults view marriage and the search for marital love. The New York Times’ recent story that more than half of births to American […]

1. Introduction and Background At the outset, credit needs to be given to two people who had a large role to play in the team efforts put forward in Tasmania to defeat the Tasmanian Same-Sex Marriage Bill 2012 – Christopher Brohier of the Adelaide Bar and Guy Barnett, former Tasmanian Senator. Guy Barnett was the […]

Welcome to the final issue for 2012. The year has flown and the next issue will be the first of those to be published in the federal election year, 2013. So the Journal will carry many articles related to election issues. Before we enter the “election cycle” I thought it advisable to run articles on […]