Social Justice Dec 8, 2006 Anna Jahns Creating Learning Communities: Freeing Education to Create a Sustainable Co-operative Society "If our earth is to survive, we need to take responsibility for what we do.Taking control of our education is the first…
Social Justice Dec 8, 2006 Peter S. Cook Feminism Childcare and Family Mental Health: Have women been misled by equality feminism? Childcare seems to be always on the political agenda. But are the real needs of babies, very young children and their mothers…
Social Justice Dec 7, 2006 Meryn Callander Intact! Protecting Our Boys from Circumcision (Photo above by Tanya Little) Circumcision — ten years ago I had trouble spelling the word. I would stumble over the pronunciation…
Ordinary lives, every day violence. Plain Talk about Spanking Today, one finds no support for spanking in the scientific literature. This opinion, shared by mental health and child development experts, and…
Social Justice Nov 27, 2006 Helena Norberg-Hodge Bringing the Economy Home When we think about our children today, it is difficult to feel optimistic about their future. The crises all around us seem…
Out of the Dark We can assume that most estimates of the incidence of child sexual abuse are under-estimates. Even large population surveys cannot provide accurate…
Social Justice Nov 24, 2006 John Breeding, PhD Does ADHD Even Exist? The Ritalin Sham Alice, the mother of a seven-year-old son, Nathan, recently visited my office for a counseling session. Nathan had reportedly been different and…
A Call to Arms Kelly Wendorf didn't know she was political, until she became a mother and realised that raising a healthy happy child in a…
Social Justice Nov 23, 2006 Meryn Callander Bonding and the Origins of Love Bonding by Natural Birth (Illustration by Mari Dieumegard used with permission.) The same hospital that offers superb medical care to those who…
Social Justice Nov 16, 2006 Lisa Reagan, Executive Editor The Future of Food: Genetically Engineered Foods, Global Biopollution and the Resurrection of Local Food Systems ‘…a master plan had been crafted to control the world's food supply. This was made clear at a biotech industry conference in…