CHILDREN with a step-parent or no biological parent are significantly more at risk than those with a single parent or both biological parents. An Australian study of more than 900 coronial inquiries into child deaths from violence or accident appears to bear out theories of the so-called Cinderella effect. Psychologist and researcher at Melbourne's Deakin University Greg Tooley said that despite sensitivities over the issue, the findings should not be ignored and child-wel...

The federal magistrate had dismissed the father's application for a recovery order and ordered that the child live with the mother and spend substantial and significant time with the father. The federal magistrate published his reasons for judgment some 35 days after making the orders. The practical effect of the delay was to preclude the father from filing an appeal within time with knowledge of the prospects of success and from successfully seeking a stay. The father's s...

The story of Mothers Day is a long one. It is neither a recent phenomenon as many people believe it to be. Nor it is the creation of card and gift marketers syndicate as assumed by cynics of Mothers Day festival. To the surprise of many people Mothers Day celebrations are first said to have taken place in the time of ancient Greeks and Romans hundreds of years ago.

The search for missing Perth toddler Imran Zilic has ended with the discovery of a child's body in a seven-metre deep mine shaft in South Australia. Police said a young child's body was found by Coober Pedy police in the one-metre wide shaft about 47 kilometres south of the opal mining town. The discovery followed information obtained by major crime squad detectives in Adelaide. While the body was still to be formally identified, Detective Inspector Doug Barr said it was b...