CHILDREN in same-sex families experience higher quality parenting and do as well emotionally, socially and educationally as those from heterosexual couple families, research shows…

A MUM who has gone to court to fight her ex-husband’s bid to have their children vaccinated says the procedure is akin to sterilisation or gender reassignment…

The number of domestic violence incidents in WA has risen almost 60 per cent over the past four years, with police attending more than 44,000 calls for help in the past year…

A QUARTER of the nation’s health budget is devoted to futile end-of-life care that strips patients of a dignified death and means healthier people have their surgery delayed…

Children of anonymous sperm donors should be allowed access to genetic information such as health history, height and eye colour, and an agency set up to quickly collect these records because they are at risk of being lost, an inquiry has found…

Tasmania’s lower house has rejected voluntary euthanasia by the narrowest of margins…

Women’s incomes suffer more than men’s after divorce, regardless of who decides to end the marriage, a study has found…

Children in court cases involving family disputes are in danger of going unheard because they are rarely given the chance to speak to judges directly, new research shows…

Because the adoption process is so complex and time-consuming, a pregnant woman wishing to have the baby but unwilling to raise that child is often propelled to have an abortion. This compares with other countries where a woman wanting to adopt out her baby can easily do so…

Why don’t we borrow from real estate and create a marital lease? Instead of wedlock, a “wedlease.”..