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Many complex issues swirl around this one distraught orphan who lost her homeland, her father, her mother — and her sense of self. They include the rights of a child versus the child’s best interests; the age at which a young person is mature enough to make a meaningful decision about serious medical choices; and the ethics of relieving emotional distress by wielding a scalpel on healthy flesh.

A 16-year-old boy suffering from autism has been granted permission to begin sex change treatments, provided he has his sperm frozen in case he wants children.

In a recent interview, Julian Assange joined defenders who have blamed feminism, writ large, for his recent sexual assault charges, saying that he “fell into a hornets’ nest of revolutionary feminism.” He added that one of the women who claims that she was sexually assaulted by him took a “trophy photo” of him lying naked in her bed (so clearly, she’s a liar).

In the article ‘Unmarried dads to be named on birth certs’ (Irish Independent, December 21), Dearbhail McDonald confuses certain aspects of family law by stating that “married parents are entitled to shared custody of their child as joint guardians and the mother of a non-marital child is entitled to sole custody if the father has not been made a guardian”.

UNMARRIED fathers will automatically have their names placed on their children’s birth certificates under laws proposed by the Government’s legal watchdog. The Law Reform Commission has proposed that all fathers, including unmarried fathers who currently have to apply to the courts to become legal guardians of their children, should have their names automatically registered.

The European Court of Human Rights granted a Nigerian man access to his children on Tuesday, overturning a series of German court rulings and potentially strengthening unmarried fathers’ rights.

SANE Australia executive director Barbara Hocking said depression was a silent epidemic among many men who still believed discussing the difficult topic was a sign of weakness.

So here’s me with my two cents: Shane Warne clearly has excellent “chat”. While I’d have no idea what either of them do in their private time I think it’s a good example of this topic for the guys. It’s something that women feel about men… that often guys don’t factor in.

That’s a question people are asking about a New York City meteorologist, Heidi Jones, who allegedly told police a man tried to rape her only to admit she had made the whole thing up.

A former public schoolgirl who hurled homophobic abuse at a gay civil servant before kicking and stamping on him during a deadly attack is behind bars. Ruby Thomas, 18, was found guilty of the manslaughter of 62-year-old Ian Baynham, who died 18 days after the drink-fuelled assault in London’s Trafalgar Square.