Posted by admin on Apr 10, 2012 in
Challenges I’ve been dreading writing this post. And I thought it would be a few years down the track, to be honest. Maybe at school. Here’s the nub of it: my partner and I are queer, poly, pagan people. Somehow, that doesn’t feel like a good fit for the conservative, predominantly Christian and Muslim, overwhelmingly monogamous outer suburbs of Sydney.
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Tags: friends, other parents, poly, sexuality, socialisation
Posted by rosanne on Sep 13, 2009 in
Challenges,
Sustainable Parenting Apparently, up to a third of Australians think women shouldn’t breastfeed in public. I think what’s more worrying about that study is how many people think babies should be weaned at six months and that it’s the 18–24 year olds who are the most ignorant. I have a sneaking suspicion that my daughter is growing up in a more conservative, gendered world than I did, and it scares me. Read more…
Tags: attachment parenting, breastfeeding, clothing, gender, infant, nudity, socialisation