Families are spending on average 7% of their disposable income on childcare down from about 13% in 2004.

Use of childcare in Australia has surged. Almost one in four children aged 12 or younger were read more

Looks like a good book. Jenni Brockie just doing a program on SBS Insight on the problem of raising narcisistic children little princes and princesses thinking they are special.

Queensland has the highest divorce rate in Australia. Don’t know about our valley.

When we started learning about Transition Towns and resilience there was a lot of thinking about growing food community gardens and saving energy.

But the more I do this ‘go local’ thing read more

British academic Frank Furedi points out that the only models of marriage and family shown on television in popular culture are dysfunctional. Televised drama has become estranged from depicting resilient read more