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Category Archives: Children

Making bullies pay

March 10, 2010 – 10:56 am

In an interesting case, the Victorian Supreme Court has decided a victim of bullying may get compensation for threats to kill made to her by a bully when she was eight years old. The compensation is under the Victims of Crime Assistance Act 1996 (Vic) (‘VCAA‘). Among other things, when they were both eight years [...]

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Mummies and Daddies

March 8, 2010 – 11:47 am

I was interested to read today that a woman has failed in her legal bid to stop her former partner from encouraging their six-year-old daughter to call his new partner “Mummy D”. Unfortunately the judgment doesn’t seem to be available online yet.
[The mother] said encouraging the term of endearment was ”an incendiary action” by her [...]

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Science, religion and how things came to be

February 27, 2010 – 2:37 pm

I think I’ve said before that I was raised by scientists. When possible, I try to explain things scientifically to my children. Obviously there’s a limit to their understanding at this point, but when they were scared of thunder and lightning recently, I told my daughter it wasn’t monsters (as she feared) but electricity in [...]

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Chained to the kitchen sink…

February 15, 2010 – 1:30 pm

Via Larvatus Prodeo, I became aware of KRudd’s latest gem – a PhD is an “excuse for not having kids”. (What is it with the political leaders in our country at the moment?)
Nina Funnell, a thirty something researcher, attended a function where Kevin Rudd spoke on an ageing population. Her story follows:
I was at a [...]

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Restitution for wrongs and child pornography

February 3, 2010 – 9:01 pm

A friend alerted to me to an interesting case reported in the New York Times involving monetary restitution to a victim of child pornography  who goes by the pseudonym “Amy”.
When she was 8 or 9 years old, Amy’s uncle had filmed her in a series of pornographic photographs known as the “Misty” series. Amy is [...]

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Earliest political memories

January 15, 2010 – 7:25 pm

[Cross posted at Larvatus Prodeo]
Today my daughter was playing with her pink superball while my son was asleep (it’s small, so she’s only allowed to get it out while he’s sleeping). I heard her mutter to her toys while brandishing the pink superball, “This is the Prime Minister, and if you do something he doesn’t [...]

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Artistic talent and crime

January 14, 2010 – 7:12 am

Via Jason Soon’s Sick of Politics blog I came across an interesting piece by Clive Hamilton on talented artists who commit crimes. Like Jason, I think it’s probably the first time I’ve been in unqualified agreement with Clive. Wonders will never cease.
Hamilton says:
Should artistic talent place those who possess it above the law? Put this [...]

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Life’s a beach

January 11, 2010 – 7:09 pm

The Eagle family has just spent a few days down on the coast, staying with some friends who have a beach house. It was really lovely.
The beach plays such an important role in my childhood memories. My parents are both Sydneysiders, and we used to visit their childhood holiday venues. We would go camping with [...]

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O Mistress Mine!

November 9, 2009 – 8:05 pm

I was fascinated to see that the first case under the new s 4AA of the Family Law Act 1975 (Cth) has been settled out of court. According to the recent article in the Herald Sun:
A cheating husband has paid his former lover more than $100,000 under Australia’s new “mistress laws”.
In the first known case [...]

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Spare the rod, spoil the child?

October 21, 2009 – 9:29 am

It is not long ago since our society believed that hitting a child to discipline her was necessary. When I was in very early primary school we still worried about “getting the strap”, although I think corporal punishment had been outlawed by then, but there was still a collective consciousness of “the strap” and what [...]

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