All Posts Tagged With: "Parenting"
Responsible parenting
Welfare reform is a positive for all children
THERE are welcome signs that the federal Government is indeed serious about extending the tough love provisions linking welfare payments to responsible parenting to all Australians. Cannington in Western Australia will be the first metropolitan suburb to trial a scheme under which welfare payments will be cut off […]
Parenting Council warns of support surveillance harm
The Shared Parenting Council of Australia says it is concerned by a Federal Government initiative to use private investigators to crack down on parents who avoid paying child support.
The Government will hold a year-long trial of surveillance on parents who provide false or misleading evidence in their child support case.
There will also be tougher measures […]
Is it time for a parenting license?
I wonder how long we have to wait before we get a serious debate in this country about parenting and whether or not every person who wants to, should be allowed to have children.
One of the most important vocations in life is parenting. For one reason above all others - that it affects other people.
Having […]
Parents angry at violent school bully game
Parenting and education experts have savaged the release of a controversial new video game based on schoolyard bullying, which features animated blood and violence, sexual themes, crude language, and alcohol and tobacco use.
Bully: Scholarship Edition, packaged in Britain as Canis Canem Edit, Latin for “dog eat dog” pits schoolchildren at a fictitious boarding school against […]