Past Programs
Family and Children - 2002
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Gifted Children at School (Repeat )
27/11/2002
Everybody wonders if their child's going to be a genius - but parents who do end up with a prodigy on their hands, often find that outstanding gifts bring their own outstanding problems, especially at school. This week - the complexities of educating gifted children. Separate or mixed ability classes? A different curriculum? Also, the interesting relationship between giftedness and disability. This is a repeat of a popular program from earlier in the year (Sunday's All In the Mind delved into the future...as part of Radio National's special Future Weekend).
Nursery Blues: Do Children Get Depressed?
15/09/2002
We'd like to think that childhood is a time of innocence and play. Surely children don't know about the Black Dog? An Australian psychiatrist says depression in children often goes unnoticed and untreated for this reason. But in light of the growing number of American kids on Prozac, and Australian kids on Ritalin for ADHD, are we at risk of heading down the same heavily medicated pathway with sad children?
The Myths of Monogamy
21/07/2002
19th century author Alexandre Dumas sagely opined that "the chains of marriage are so heavy that it takes two to bear them - and sometimes three". But Dumas was no radical: it seems that monogamy has never been the norm for human societies. Or at least, that's the view of David Barash and Judith Lipton, authors of a new book entitled "The Myth of Monogamy". They argue that our evolutionary biology leans heavily in favour of multiple sexual partnerships, and that there's something distinctly unnatural about our moral predilection for one lifelong mate.
