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The politics of motherhood are complex and passionate

jacinta As soon as I opened the magazine a few weeks ago, I knew it would end in tears. The headline was “The Big Easy” and it was a story about one woman’s breezy... [read more]

Sorry, but why are we always saying sorry?

sorry Sorry is not always the hardest word. For some of us, it slips constantly out of our mouths. But why? Lorraine Candy is Editor-in-Chief of fashion magazine Elle... [read more]

The stigma of being a housewife. How one woman ‘came out’.

. To me, feminism has always meant the right to choose what you want to do with your life. I know that many women who choose to stay at home with their children... [read more]

Motherhood is easy.

Jacinta and son, Jasper I bumped into a girlfriend this morning and she was incensed about something she'd read yesterday. It was in the same magazine in which my column appears and in... [read more]

When being pregnant makes you feel guilty….

Sunday Life signature When I was pregnant with my third child, I had some moments of extreme guilt. There were women around me , some close friends, who were struggling to have a baby... [read more]

UPDATED: Women are too scared to use the morning-after pill. This is bad.

. I've used the morning-after pill several times in my life when my contraception has failed. But not since the happy day it became available over the counter... [read more]

If one mum is good, are two mums better?

lesbian mothers Do you ever wish you had a wife? I do.  A wife would be nice. A proper one. Not like the kind of wife I am. Anyway, this isn't a post about wives it's a post about... [read more]

He shook his baby so hard it caused brain damage. Does that sound like a good parent to you?

injustice Given it's the Federal Election and all, this story will probably be buried somewhere down the back of the newspaper. It probably won't get a run on the TV news... [read more]

The best thing about being a parent.

. It's been brought to my attention by some rather anguished comments in some of Mamamia's recent posts about parenthood here, here and here, that we're frightening... [read more]

Choosing the sex of your child for ‘lifestyle’ reasons.

xy-t Last year I took part in a forum at The Garvan Institute about the ethics of IVF. One of the questions that came up was about using IVF to select the gender of your... [read more]