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22Jul
Seen And Not Heard
As a young pupil who attended a strict, traditional Church school, I remember very often being told that ‘children should be seen and not heard’. Probably because my parents were never the unyielding tyrant types, this phrase was hardly ever
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26May
The Bishop is Right
For once in my life I just to have to agree with the Bishop of Gozo who thinks that a family is a relationship between a man and a woman, who unite in marriage with the intention of having and
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09May
Children are a luxury
Last week the Times ran a story about a forty year old man who for some reason or other hasn’t worked in 18 years. Whether he doesn’t work because of physical or mental health reasons is unclear, but he
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19Feb
Legal But Not Possible
I have to say that the interest generated by my previous blog (about single adoptions from Ethiopia), and the feedback to the subsequent news report by Claudia Calleja on the same subject, left me pleasantly surprised. Honestly, I didn’t think
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13Nov
Some Mothers Do Have Them
I’ve always believed that a good sense of humour will get you through anything in life. With this in mind I braved a week-long vacation with nine adults and six children, all under the age of nine. Because none of
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08Nov
Dying at Birth
This story appeared in Pink magazine, November 2011 Stephanie and David Sciberras are both in their late 30s and have been married for nine years. Last year, when their first daughter was three years old, Stephanie found out she was
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