The Hand Mirror

I have a boyfriend (please leave me alone) Yes I am totally mentally distraught about this pregnancy and would get lots worse if I had to ...

In recent public debate about child poverty blame has been laid once again on parents having too many children.  Correspondents and opinion...

Many thanks to Family Planning NZ for allowing me to publish the below from their e-newsletter: A report released in December 2011 b...

On Monday the NZ Herald started a week-long series looking at the gap between rich and poor in Auckland.  On the first day they examined two...

An old moan: women with small children end up taking all the flexible working hours (because there's a limited amount to go round?) and ...

Many thanks to Foggy in Nelson for this contribution, on the eve of Mothers' Day.  Wanting to write this has driven FiN to set up her ow...

Please find below (indeed below the Read More) the presentation I gave today on why abortion needs to be legal, and why we need a pro-choice...

From Stuff's Business Day section: Vasectomy specialist Dr Dirk Venter at the Henderson Medical Centre says there is definitely a link b...

What the hell's wrong with me? I've got two children - a perfectly respectable family size - whom I love to bits. I feel more or le...

Almost a year ago the papers were bitching women out for waiting around too long for Mr Right and thus were having babies far too late for ...

From the NZ Herald this afternoon , Sarah Palin's 18 year old daughter Bristol has said in an interview that teen sex is not a great ide...

my first pregnancy was an accident. i really didn't want to be pregnant, and seriously thought about an abortion. in the end, i went t...

Macdoctor has responded to a story in the Herald about a shortage of Depo-Provera a contraceptive injection. I'm not going to rant ab...

According to today's Dom Post, the parents of little girls suffering from cancer are having the girls' eggs harvested before they un...

Hey Me, I know what you’re thinking. You reckon life is going pretty well so why make any big changes? Why halve our household income overni...

Cross-posted at the ex-expat . Vileness corner Not to put a finer point on it but both breeders and non-breeders are going to have to rely o...

Cross-posted at Ex-expat This seems to becoming a weekly thing, ex-expat being pissed at something in the SST. Last week I was away from th...