Call me negative but, up to a few months ago I was living in the assumption that what’s about to happen tomorrow (marriage between gay couples) was never going to happen, at least not in my lifetime. Until quite recently I had very little faith that...
With all the controversy surrounding the issue of same-sex adoption, it’s only too easy to lose sight of the real important players in the drama – the children themselves. I spoke to a family with two mothers and a bunch of happy kids. Joanne* and Michaela* met...
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 used at home, so, whenever someone...
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 raising children. According to Bishop Grech's...
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 has since then fathered five children -...
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 people would care so much about...
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 the kids were mine, I...
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 pregnant with their second, this time...