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De facto spouse may not share wealth
A reader wonders how a potential relationship might impact on his children’s future financial security. Continue Reading
National Adoption Awareness Week
Every child has the right to grow up in a family and with stable care. This is critical to children’s emotional security, their development, sense of belonging and overall wellbeing. However, there are many children both in Australia and overseas who do not have the benefit of stable family care.
National Adoption Awareness Week (NAAW) runs from 9 to 15 November and recognises that adoption can provide families for children who would otherwise live in institutions or without permanent and loving care. Continue Reading
Compromise key to evolving family life
A constantly changing family shape bothers a father-to-be. Continue Reading
Ending HIV
You’re invited to mobilise in support of the most significant advance against HIV since the introduction of HIV treatments nearly 20 years ago. It’s about ending HIV: 2020 marks the end of the decade and it can also mark the end for new cases of HIV in Australia.
ActNow Theatre’s Zero Feet Away at the Feast Festival
Where did you meet your first love? How would you describe yourself to a stranger? Where’s the best place to be kissed? What do you never talk about in public? How do you find intimacy in a virtual world?
Following the rise of dating applications such as Tinder and Grindr, Zero Feet Away explores how to find intimacy in virtual spaces, and what actually happens in our heads, our hearts and our bedrooms. Created by a team of professional and community young gay artists, this is innovative, provocative, inspiring and honest theatre not to be missed. Continue Reading
FRSA Conference Update: ‘Long way to go’ to hear children voices in court
Australia’s top family Court judge has warned that family law services are still not doing enough to include children in family court proceedings. Continue Reading
Measuring Our Outcomes by Measuring Kids’ Outcomes with PACES
Dr Jamie Lee, Deborah Lockwood and Dr Rebecca Feo explain how our Together 4 Kids (T4K) service uses the PACES tool to measure the impact we are having on our T4K clients, in a recent edition of Parity magazine. Continue Reading
FRSA Conference Update: Service providers get ‘carrot’ to adopt early intervention practices
Family and Relationships services have been challenged to engage families well before they ‘break down’ and leave someone to ‘pick up the pieces’. Continue Reading
Son’s homosexuality comes as a surprise
A mother is shocked by revelations that her 16-year-old son is gay. Continue Reading