Edition 10: Family Politics

The gap between the lived reality and the public image of the family is greater than ever. Family Politics goes behind the political rhetoric about families and explores the more complicated reality.

Family remains central to our identity, health and happiness, but there are many different sorts of families and many other relationships that are like family.

Moving memoirs, revealing stories and insightful analysis delve into
the small p politics of individual families and examine the political challenges that arise when family is centre stage.

The compelling writing in Family Politics resonates and challenges
the idea that all happy families resemble one another.

Writers include:

Joanna Mendelssohn, Tom Morton, Robert Hillman, Rosemary Hunter,
Annette Trevitt, Anne Coombs, Katherine Wilson, Sandy McCutcheon,
Catherine Kevin, Christopher Jay, Georgia Blain, Carmel Bird, Marion Halligan,
Rosaleen Love, Peter Meredith, Alison Ravenscroft, Sylvia Lawson, David Whish-Wilson,
Jennifer Robertson, Oren Siedler and Creed C O'Hanlon.

Natalie McComas' photo essay gives us an insight into the day of a young, working mother.

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