Understanding the empathy deficit
It’s not an excuse, but violence in adults can often be traced back to a lack of nurture as babies and toddlers.
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Gender equal — except for single-income families
When Daniel Rotham* applied for paid parental leave in the months before his third child was born, he expected to get it.
Is the explosion of diagnosed ‘disorders’ helping kids, or hurting them?
At a busy playground on any given day there is likely to be a parent explaining a child’s behaviour with a diagnosis. Oppositional Defiance Disorder, Anxiety, Sensory Processing Disorder, Autism or ADHD, to name just a few.
Women win culture war on the home front
Irish voters delivered an emphatic rejection of gender-neutral phrasing that erases motherhood. But this was not just a matter of constitutional semantics.
Painful truth about how we over-medicate our children
Our unhealthy reliance on pain medication paracetamol may be harming our young ones more than we know.
Yacht envy, and the insidious curse of relative deprivation
Trying to keep up with the Joneses is a path to dissatisfaction, depression, despair … and worse.
Women’s work should be whatever we want it to be
Arbitrary division of labour with disregard to biology or desire won’t achieve gender equality.
Environmental beef with costs of cultivated meat
If the time and money plunged into million-dollar beef patties had been directed to renewable energy and recycling solutions, who knows what could have been achieved.
Family fights and the festive season: how to argue well
Keeping the peace at all costs is not how we learn and grow. Expecting others to uncritically accept our projections is juvenile.
Kids will pay the price in push for universal childcare
Advocates fail to acknowledge the evidence that daycare can harm young children’s development.
Original URL: https://www.theaustralian.com.au/author/virginia-tapscott/page/2