Posts by Hilary Stace
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Russell - Hillary Clinton has two lls. We Hil(l)arys are sensitive about these things. You probably understand.
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Andrew - that report is quoting Peter Burns - it's only his version. The blogger dad4justice has some rather questionable attitudes to subjects such as women and families.
I guess we will have to wait for the court case.
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Why was Dad4justice praying with and counselling the couple in the Christchurch murder case? There must be a story there.
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Like I said earlier, we had to deal with this issue first-hand (trisomy 21, plus multiple deformities, to be exact), and it frankly fucks me right off that I'm unable to have a grown-up conversation about it around certain groups of people without pussy-footing around the whole career/carer debate
This must have been really tough for you Ben, and one of those situations where no one can ever say, I know how you feel, because no one else can.
But, on the other hand disability itself is not tragedy. I met some amazing young people with Downs a couple of weeks ago that any parents would be proud of. And they also want a career and to be carers, not cared for.
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There are better studies than the Dunedin longitudinal one that clearly show that where children are hit there is more fear and less trust than in families where children are not hit. Don't ask me to find them now but Prof Anne Smith retired from the Children's Issues Centre Otago Uni and Dr Gabrielle Maxwell from VUW have written on such studies over the years.
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The Dunedin longitudinal study is quite hard to interpret on the effects of 'smacking' as tidy questions were not asked.
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Slightly off topic but fascinating to learn about the role of the infamous right wing blog commentator Dad4Justice in the current Christchurch murder case. Mr Burns was their praying family counsellor.
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Fathers of any age with babies need to consider the semiotics of the nappy
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I look like Bert Sutcliffe...
This one?
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Speaking of Africa, this report by friends in Tanzania provides a slightly different perspective on global communications