Parenting News and Current Affairs

Three children have caught measles after being exposed to a infected child from a non-vaccinating family.

Non-vaccinated child spreads measles to other children

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Single parent Erin O'Dwyer with her twins when they were babies, Ambrose (right) and Clancy (left).

My day as a 'lazy' single mother of twin boys

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David Archibald speaks at a rally in Perth in 2011.

One Nation stand by WA candidate after calling single mums 'lazy and ugly'

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Bobby Webber has been left with lasting brain damage after the attack.

Man who bashed seven-month-old baby jailed

A man who bashed his partner's seven-month-old nephew, causing him severe and lasting brain damage has been sentenced to at least eight and a half years' jail.

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Tributes for new mum who died after car crashed into dam

A new mum has died in hospital 10 days after a four-wheel drive plunged into a dam on the couple's Victorian property.

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The toddler is treated by emergency services before being taken to hospital.

Toddler dies after being hit by reversing car at a Kiama caravan park

The 18-month-old girl suffered chest and abdominal injuries in the accident.

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Justin Ross and son Cooper at a baseball game.

Dad who left son to die in hot car gets life with no parole

A father in the US has been jailed for life without the possibility of parole after jurors ruled he intentionally left his toddler son in a hot SUV to die.

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Keith and Sherri Papini with their two children.

The puzzling case of kidnapped mum Sherri Papini

"Rumors, assumptions, lies, and hate have been both exhausting and disgusting," her husband wrote.

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Missing bear reunited with his family

A Sydney family's beloved teddy bear, which represents their stillborn baby boy, has been reunited with his owners, a week after going missing.

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The war memorial slab that fell on the three-year-old girl, killing her.

Parents, siblings 'witnessed girl being crushed by monument'

A three-year-old Sydney girl crushed by a stone monument died in front of her siblings and parents, devastated friends have revealed.

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The street in the Newcastle suburb of Wallsend where a six-week-old baby girl was found dead.

'Not my baby': Delusion led to fatal throat slitting by mother

It looked just like her baby. And yet the mother became convinced her daughter had been replaced.

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Leila Alavi made 12 unsuccessful attempts to get into a refuge before she was murdered by her estranged husband.

When two boys died, laws changed. But these 32 deaths deserve more

The NSW government was prepared to shut down Sydney nightlife because of the shocking and tragic death of two boys but seems unwilling to step up on anything like a similar scale when it comes to the far higher toll of domestic violence.

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Mum takes botched sterilisation case to Supreme Court over lost earnings

A woman fighting for lost earnings while she raises a child after a botched sterilisation wants to take her case to the Supreme Court.

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Dennis Brown with his daughter Jannali. This picture is published with permission of the family.

Young mother jailed over child's death

An unlicensed young mother who had used drugs before she crashed her car, killing her two-year-old daughter, has been sentenced to a maximum of three years in jail, with a judge describing the case as one of the most tragic he had ever encountered.

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