Sex discrimination Commissioner Elizabeth Broderick recently called for tougher sentencing of people convicted of intimate partner violence. She argues incidents of partner violence should not be treated as ‘just a domestic’ but should attract ‘a premium penalty’. Broderick is not alone.

A friend of mine, let’s call her K, has a son who just turned fourteen. She’s fairly committed to the idea of raising him as a relatively decent human being and, being a fairly active person online, she recently asked her blog for help finding books and DVDs and the like on how to be […]