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The unearthly children of science fiction’s Cold War

In the 1950s a new figure emerged in British novels, film and television: a disturbing young alien that revealed postwar society’s fear of the unruly power of teenagers.

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“People see the disability but forget the ability”

I’m a disabled Asian woman, and mother of four. I’m trying to show people that we have to talk about disability if we want things to change.

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On being a father with OCD

As a parent to young children, Ben Falk worries whether he could somehow pass his OCD on to them. Here’s what the experts say.

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Spiritual joy

Spiritual joy can be a source of strength. Like the optimistic Pollyanna, there’s a lot to be said for finding reasons to rejoice, even in adversity.

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  • National Children's Bureau Conference : World AIDS Day Conference 1995 : children's participation in HIV services : needs, rights and cultural diversity / a major one day conference organised by the National Forum on AIDS and Children, the European Forum on HIV/AIDS, Children and Families and the National Children's Bureau.
  • National Children's Bureau Conference : World AIDS Day Conference 1995 : children's participation in HIV services : needs, rights and cultural diversity / a major one day conference organised by the National Forum on AIDS and Children, the European Forum on HIV/AIDS, Children and Families and the National Children's Bureau.
  • National Children's Bureau Conference : World AIDS Day Conference 1995 : children's participation in HIV services : needs, rights and cultural diversity / a major one day conference organised by the National Forum on AIDS and Children, the European Forum on HIV/AIDS, Children and Families and the National Children's Bureau.
  • National Children's Bureau Conference : World AIDS Day Conference 1995 : children's participation in HIV services : needs, rights and cultural diversity / a major one day conference organised by the National Forum on AIDS and Children, the European Forum on HIV/AIDS, Children and Families and the National Children's Bureau.
  • Saturn, seated right, is threatened by his three children Jupiter, Neptune and Pluto. Engraving by G. Bonasone after G. Romano, ca. 1560.
  • Hands engaged in different activities from top left, holding a ring to bottom right, clenching a fist; an advertisement about the benefit of helping children with AIDS. Photocopy.
  • Giuditta Pasta in the role of Medea: she embraces her children (left) and then throws her arms up in anticipation of murdering them (right). Lithograph by John Hayter, 1827.
  • Christ heals a man with dropsy while the Pharisees and lawyers criticise him for healing on a Sunday; Pharisees feast in the background; children play with a donkey on the right. Engraving by E. Rouargue.
  • Left, a man (the poet Gonchūnagon Atsutada?) is seated on a verandah; centre, a willow tree; right, a mad woman with unbound hair and disevelled dress is dancing, mocked by three children. Woodcut by Keigi, 1822.
  • Four adults and three children standing in a line; below them are lines of pink and white flowers, above is a blue sky with a red square to the top right corner. Gouache by Sybil Pearsall, 1949.
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