A PUSH to harmonise adoption laws across the country could see South Australia abolish restrictions that can conceal the identities of birth parents or children…

A widow has been allowed to extract her dead husband’s sperm a day after he took his own life, following an urgent West Australian court hearing…

EMOTIONS can run high at Christmas as fractured families attempt to find common ground. Reminds me of something the late comic George Burns said: “Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.”..

FAMILIES would spend less time in court and more time in conferences under a new approach to child protection in NSW, Minister for Women Pru Goward says…

ADOPTION has dropped to an all-time low, as prospective parents wait up to six years to give a home to a child from Asia…

PARENTS are resorting to “incredulous” sex abuse claims against their ex-partners as custody wars turn increasingly ugly in Queensland. ..

The Christmas holidays are here, but for Tasmanian parents with shared child custody, the new year’s school holidays could raise some legal issues…

DISABLED children are more than three times as likely as able-bodied children to be abused or neglected, a new report says…

MORE and more families are taking steps to confirm their children’s parentage. But experts say it doesn’’t have to be a negative and nasty experience. ..

A Family Court judge has ordered the parents of an eight-year-old girl to immunise their child according to government health guidelines, despite the biological mother’s refusal on the grounds of her homeopathic beliefs…