Childcare
Opinion
Parenting
Having children changes your relationship with your parents, not always for the best
In becoming a parent, unresolved issues with your own can bubble back up. One recurring dynamic, however, can irk the most: parental criticism and its psychological sibling, control.
- by Peter Quarry
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Opinion
Opinion
The workplace change that could fix our declining birth rate
For some parents, it’s not that they can’t afford to have more children, it’s that they simply don’t have the time to raise them.
- by Charlotte Mortlock
Analysis
Analysis
What the evidence says about whether we should send kids to childcare
Many parents feel guilty about outsourcing the care of their children, but it turns out childcare may actually help child development.
- by Liam Mannix
Has parenting really become too hard? Experts certainly believe so
Many parents are at the breaking point of stress, and some say parenting has become too hard. What can we do to bring the joy back?
- by Sarah Berry
Eighty-year-old kinder facing eviction as church eyes lucrative sale
Gardiner Preschool, which has been on St Andrews Lane in Glen Iris for 80 years, has been given notice by the Uniting Church to vacate by the end of 2025.
- by Noel Towell
Opinion
Parental leave
Despite our parental leave win, super is still sexist
Paying super on parental leave will add billions of dollars to the retirement funds of parent carers across the country. But it’s not enough.
- by Nicole Pedersen-McKinnon
The $5 billion plan for families that Albanese could promise at the next election
Almost one-third of Australian families would get free childcare under a plan the federal government is now considering.
- by Natassia Chrysanthos
How NSW childcare centres, schools will be used to prevent a crisis
NSW has long focused on responding to domestic and family violence. Now it will turn its attention to prevention.
- by Alexandra Smith
No medal for Australia in international childcare rankings
A study of childcare in nine developed countries found Australia’s system did little to incentivise services where they’re most needed.
- by Alex Crowe
Fix WA cost of living now: Social services launch election pitch
The WA community services sector has come out swinging ahead of the state election saying the state has it in its power to act now on people’s suffering.
- by Emma Young
Police told to review handling of complaints about Brisbane childcare paedophile
Queensland’s police minister has asked for another review into how officers handled complaints into one of Australia’s worst paedophiles.
- by Cloe Read
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