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Desperate parents believe it is safer for their children to go to boarding schools in Kenya or Uganda than live in some Melbourne suburbs.
Topics: immigration, crime, youth, parenting, melbourne-3000, south-sudan
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Pressure to hold the perfect children's birthday party is rising, but at what cost?
Topics: children, family, parenting, food-and-cooking, arts-and-entertainment, small-business, cairns-4870
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Of the 700 women being held in a Queensland correctional facility, a handful of them are mothers allowed to keep their young children with them on the inside, one of which says it encourages her to avoid crime in future.
Topics: prisons-and-punishment, law-crime-and-justice, parenting, family-and-children, community-and-society, human-interest, people, townsville-4810
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| UpdatedDo yourself and your kids a favour and drop the "Santa charade", writes Ben Pobjie. You don't have to be a Grinch about it — just tell them the truth.
Topics: children, parenting, national-days, religion-and-beliefs, offbeat, psychology
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Cambodia is offering a limited amnesty to Australians who have paid for surrogacy services, saying they can collect their babies without fear of arrest.
Topics: world-politics, parenting, cambodia
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| UpdatedShould doctors who perform labiaplasty be charged under anti-Female Genital Mutilation laws? And would you live broadcast your own genital cosmetic surgery as one pop star is doing?
Topics: womens-health, pornography, women, parenting, relationships, laws
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An academic paper suggesting parents rethink the ethics of the Santa story they tell their children raises ire and leads to accusations the magic of Christmas is being ruined.
Topics: family-and-children, parenting, human-interest, perth-6000
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| UpdatedAbout 40 Australian couples face abandoning hopes of a family, after an Australian woman is charged with running an illegal surrogacy clinic in Cambodia.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, parenting, babies, fertility-and-infertility, cambodia, australia
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| UpdatedAn overemphasis on natural childbirth is reportedly leading women to feel guilty about choosing pain relief. Boo to that, writes Jo Fox.
Topics: babies, parenting, women, infant-health, womens-health, social-media
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| UpdatedA UK father's search for a discontinued blue cup his son with severe autism drinks exclusively from sparks responses from around the world.
Topics: human-interest, family-and-children, parenting, offbeat, autism-spectrum-disorder, united-kingdom
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| UpdatedWith a growing number of single-sex schools in Australia converting to co-ed, Samantha Selinger-Morris looks at how attending gender segregated schools impacts students' emotional wellbeing and worldview.
Topics: parenting, relationships, youth, schools, bullying, discrimination, australia
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Changes in NSW Parliament procedural rules allow politicians who are parents to vote more flexibly.
Topics: state-parliament, parenting, work, tamworth-2340, sydney-2000
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Do men need to 'woman up' when it comes to sharing the burden of contraception, asks Jo Fox. And does a new DIY intrauterine insemination device really give women the freedom its creators claim?
Topics: parenting, women, womens-health, sexual-health, pregnancy-and-childbirth
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Topics: parenting, gladstone-4680
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Gladstone Communities for Children urged parents to seek out local services that could benefit their children.
Topics: parenting, gladstone-4680
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Love, time and good boundaries are what children need and the age, income or type of relationship their parents have is less important, a Perth researcher says.
Topics: parenting, family-and-children, social-sciences, child-health-and-behaviour, human-interest, perth-6000
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British singer Adele says she had postnatal depression after the birth of her son and underwent therapy when she was younger for what she called her "very dark side".
Topics: babies, babies---newborns, family-and-children, depression, parenting, music, united-kingdom
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| UpdatedThe Federal Government's planned changes to paid parental leave are thrown into doubt as the Nick Xenophon Team confirms it will not support the proposal in its current form.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-government, parenting, budget, australia
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| UpdatedNew mum Emily Bourke says having access to paid parental leave was less about the money and more about the time, which she believes all parents should be afforded to be the best families they can be.
Topics: community-and-society, parenting, government-and-politics
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Topics: pregnancy-and-childbirth, adult-education, parenting, cairns-4870
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We asked you to send us photos of your childhood teddy bears. You delivered.
Topics: children, parenting, human-interest, melbourne-3000
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We explain the Government's planned changes to changes to paid parental leave and why it could have difficulty implementing them.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-government, parenting, australia
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| UpdatedThe Coalition's plan to tighten access to its paid parental leave scheme is unlikely to start on January 1 next year, with crucial crossbench senators arguing women who are currently pregnant should not be caught up in the changes.
Topics: government-and-politics, federal-government, parenting, family-and-children, australia
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Before fiddling with the design of paid parental leave, we need to be clear about the purpose of the policy.
Topics: parenting, family-and-children, community-and-society, child-care, children, children---preschoolers, children---toddlers, pregnancy-and-childbirth, budget, government-and-politics, australia
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| UpdatedAuthor and blogger Constance Hall tells how she is raising her daughters to have better body image than her and why she is in love with Waleed Aly.
Topics: books-literature, parenting, feminism, women, social-media, people, australia