Adoption
Adoption contact hard for mothers
Kate Benson WOMEN who have given up their babies for adoption are still having problems making contact with them more than 20 years after laws were changed to make it easier, usually because they feel they do...
Family discovery
Abandoned on a doorstep
Andrew Rowan tells Emily Cunningham how he found out he had been discovered on a doorstep by a paperboy.
Loving families look for permanent solution, not temporary fix
Adele Horin AS AUSTRALIA recorded its lowest number of adoptions ever in 2010-11, Julie and Carl Hall were celebrating the adoption of Codie, the third sibling to be legally embraced by the family in recent...
Mummy wars
Confronting cover: Time shows mother breastfeeding 3-year-old
A startling Time magazine cover image of a mother breastfeeding her three-year-old son has sparked debate about the technique known as attachment parenting.
Lucy has a gay dad and a 'tummy mummy'
Neil McMahon STUART GENT hopes his daughter Lucy will grow up believing herself blessed, a girl conceived and born with love in mind and with the greatest care and deliberation.
Is this baby really a crime?
Tim Barlass From March 1, it will be a crime to enter into a commercial surrogacy agreement paying a willing mother at a clinic in India, as Krista and Matt Geary have done with their new daughter Elizabeth.
Two mums, one dad and a baby
Surrogacy has been a sleeper issue, but it's about to wake up, writes Brian Robins.
Law unto itself: abortion crime still lurks in legal shadows
Rick Feneley A couple escaped conviction this week, but others can still be jailed in NSW and Queensland for terminating unwanted pregnancies. Rick Feneley reports.
Surrogacy bill gives parents more rights
Brian Robins STATE POLITICS PARENTS of children born through surrogacy would be given full legal recognition for the first time, under a bill introduced in Parliament last night.
Barnardos welcomes same-sex adoptions as religious right vows to fight
Malcolm Brown BARNARDOS AUSTRALIA, which has been at the forefront of child welfare for than 120 years, has embraced the legislation passed in the NSW Parliament allowing adoption by same-sex couples and will...
