When I was growing up I heard this nursery rhyme a lot. It’s an old traditional nursery rhyme about what little boys and little girls are made of. What the nursery rhyme’s telling us is that boys and girls, and so men and women, are very different to each other. But today, picking up on Marxist ideology, that there are no individuals and everyone is the same, regardless of our gender. Liberal feminists, in particular, say that there aren’t even any physical differences between men and women. Radical feminists accept that there are physical differences between men and women but, under what they call the socialisation theory, they say that the way boys and girls are treated growing up has a dramatically negative effect on women. That theory, accepts physical differences but insists that there aren’t any innate psychological differences between men and women. Any differences we observe must be the product of nurture, not nature. So who’s right? And what does it matter in the context of children’s rights to a mother and a father. Tag words: Louise Perry; The Case Against the Sexual Revolution; Kary Faust; Stacy Manning; Them Before Us; Lia Thomas; Liberal feminists; Radical feminists; transgender; testosterone; osetrogen; Dr Louann Brizendine; The Female Brain;

“Star Wars – Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back”, has probably the most unique scene in any movie, or any book for that matter, that you’ve ever come across, and what it has to say is what this programme is all about. Let me play this short excerpt from the movie. Tag words: Star Wars; The Empire Strikes Back; Darth Vader; step-father; step-parents; H. J. Sants; genealogical bewilderment; sperm donor; egg donor; Katy Faust; Stacy Manning; Them Before Us; baby boom era; Donor Conceived;

The Cinderella story is about a young girl whose mother dies. Her father remarries. His new bride was married before and had two daughters from her previous marriage. Cinderella’s father dies, leaving her in the not-so tender care of her step-mother and her step-sisters. Things work out really badly for Cinderella as it does for most step-children in real life. And in real life, at least in Australia, there aren’t balls at the palace and there aren’t many handsome princes to sweep a girl off her feet and rescue her from her step family. Why the life of most step-children is a long way from ideal is what this programme is going to look at, because thus it was and thus it will always be. In fact there’s an even better known, a real life story of what it’s like to be a step-child where one of the parents is not your own and nor are any of your brothers and sisters. His were all step-children with the same mum and dad. I’ll tell you about that. Tag words: Cinderella; step-children; step-child; step-son; step-daughter; Jesus; Mary; Joseph; Psalm 69; the Bible; step-mother; step-father; Them Before Us; Katy Faust; Stacy Manning; adoption;

They say: The only things kids need to grow up healthy and happy are to be safe and loved. And here’s what Mia Wallace (Uma Thurman) says to Vincent Vega (John Travolta) in Pulp Fiction about what they say: So “they say” a lot of stuff that they’ve heard from somewhere else and they don’t know whether it’s true, but it sounds true, so they treat it as if it’s true. But that’s not true – you can’t ignore your biology and I’ll tell you why what “they say” isn’t true. Tag words: biological parents; marriage; married parents; single mums; Cinderella; the Cinderella effect; step-children; step-child; step-parent; fatal beatings; child maltreatment; child abuse;

In their book Them Before Us, Katy Perry and Stacy Manning spoke of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of a Child. They had this to say: Every country on the planet understands how critical mothers and fathers are to children. The United Nations, an institution in which consensus is as rare as a winged unicorn, enshrined children's right to be known and loved by both parents in the Convention on the Rights of the Child — the most widely ratified human rights treaty in history. This winged unicorn has declared that children have a right to be known and cared for by both their mother and father, should not be separated from their parents, and have a right to remain in contact when apart. Children have a right to their biological identity and extended family. In summary, children are not items to be cut and pasted into any and every adult relationship. As Rabbi Gilles Bernheim has noted, children are subjects of rights, not objects of rights. So let’s see what the importance for children is of living with both of their biological parents. Tag words: Them Before Us; Katy Perry; Stacy Manning; United Nations Convention on the Rights of a Child; homelessness; human trafficking; prisons; suicide; teen pregnancy; abortions; high school dropout rates; emotional and behavioural problems; single parenthood; rape; prostitution; domestic violence; identity politics; ; welfare bills; prison inmates; Mary Eberstadt; Adam and Eve After the Pill – Revisited; Jeffrey Epstein; Ghislaine Maxwell; Louise Perry; The Case Against the Sexual Revolution; Children; Nicholas A. Christakis; Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society; Communist societies; Shulamith Firestone; Igor Shafarevich; Donald Winnicott; Leah Libresco Sargeant; Gough Whitlam; Family Law Act; Camilla Nelson; Dave Chapelle; early menstruation; telomeres;

Louise Perry, young English feminist who published the book therefore with the surprising title of The Case Against the Sexual Revolution quotes the story that English philosopher, writer and Christian apologist, GK Chesterton, told. It goes like this and is entirely relevant to our modern tear everything down culture – which includes the sexual revolution going back to the 1960s, powered by the invention of the contraceptive pill and easy divorce. The story goes like this: In the matter of reforming things, as distinct from deforming them, there is one plain and simple principle; a principle which will probably be called a paradox. There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say, for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected across a road. The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, 'I don't see the use of this; let us clear it away.' To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: 'If you don't see the use of it, I certainly won't let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it.' The Family Law Act 1975, introduced by the Whitlam government, was born from the contraceptive pill. The fears, at the time that this legislation were that the Family Law Act would destroy the family. The feminists led the charge on that. They mocked the suggestion that the Family Law Act would destroy the family. They said it was that non-existent thing, the patriarchy that was trying to rob women of their freedom. Now nearly 50 years on we can see how that worked out. The Whitlam government had pulled down the 4,000 year old marriage gate and revolutionised it. Did they know what they were pulling down and what that gate did? And where was that going to leave the children – which this series of programmes is all about. Tag words: Louise Perry; The Case Against the Sexual Revolution; GK Chesterton; Family Law Act 1975; divorce; Whitlam government; Matrimonial Causes Act; Marriage Act, 1961; Moses; Genesis 2:24; Christians; Gough Whitlam; Women and Whitlam; Camilla Nelson; Melissa Moschella; The Rights of Children: Biology Matters; Swinging Sixties; Karl Marx; Plato; The Republic; Igor Shafarevich; The Socialist Phenomenon; Sexual Revolution; the Pill; Institute for American Values; - Births to Unmarried Women, Child Trends, December 2015; Katy Faust; Stacy Manning; Them Before Us; contraceptive pill; Timothy Reichert; Bitter Pill; Dave Chappelle; Peter Pan syndrome; manolescent; Mick Jagger;

In my last programme I talked about the discovery that although a lot of behaviour, of animals and humans, may be wired in, often it has to be triggered by a parent etc before it starts to operate. One instance of this that I talked about in the last programme is cats that are taken off their mothers too soon – they will never learn how to climb down from a tree. Then there were Susan Minetka’s tame monkeys, wild monkeys and a snake. The tame monkeys didn’t know what a snake was and that they had to be afraid of it - for good reason – like if a snake bites, then the monkey will die. After a brief time with wild monkeys that were shown a snake and went berserk at the sight of it, the tame monkeys learned to match the behaviour of the wild monkeys forever after. After that brief exposure to how wild monkeys behave, the tame monkeys were immediately and totally equipped to deal with snakes. Then there are the male snakes of the #MeToo controversy. It turned out that many of the men and women involved in that controversy were both like the tame monkeys. The women hadn’t been socialised to deal with the behaviour of that kind by men and many of the men weren’t equipped to deal with those women who didn’t want that sort of attention. Tag words: Susan Minetka; #MeToo; Mary Eberstadt; Primal Scream; Women’s Christian Temperance Union; WCTU; Christianity; Galatians 3:28; Communists; Karl Marx; Plato; The Republic; Igor Shafarevich; The Socialist Phenomenon; Louise Perry; The Case Against the Sexual Revolution; Sex and the City; Carrie Bradshaw; The Fall; Stella Gibson; Catharine MacKinnon; RAG; Revolutionary Anarcha Feminist;

In this programme I’m going to tell you why some cats can climb up a tree but need the Fire Brigade to get them down. And how the explanation I’m going to give you for that explains how some women found themselves victims of the #MeToo movement, and eventually I’m going to tell you from knowing that, why that explains why we should ban surrogacy, egg and sperm donations, and even take a long, hard look before allowing same sex couples to adopt children. So please fasten your seat belt because you’re in for a bumpy ride. Tag words: cats; #MeToo movement; surrogacy; egg donations; sperm donations; retractable claws; fire brigade; Karen Pryor; Temple Grandin; Animals Make Us Human; social learning; Harry Harlow; rhesus monkeys; John T. Cacioppo; William Patrick; Loneliness: Human Nature and the Need for Social Connection; autistic-like syndrome; Susan Minetka; Mary Eberstadt; Primal Fear; Louise Perry; The Case Against the Sexual Revolution; Divorce Rates Double When People Start Watching Porn; David Shultz; Cheap Sex: The Transformation of Men, Marriage, and Monogamy; Mark Regnerus; Charlie Rose; CBS; Linda Boreman; Linda Lovelace; Deep Throat; Ordeal; John Anderson; Katy Faust; Them Before Us; Pat Fagan;

Who has a right to adopt child a? Is it married heterosexual couples? Unmarried heterosexual couples? Same sex married couples? Same sex unmarried couples? Individuals whatever gender they identify as? Well the answer’s surprisingly simple, no adults have the right to adopt a child that they’re not biologically related to.  The proper question to ask is whether the child should be adopted out to the applicants seeking the adoption. And those adults have to jump through a lot of hoops to satisfy the people responsible for allowing that child to be adopted to decide if those adults are suitable parents. Tag words: adoption; surrogate; American Academy of Pediatrics; child-centric social worker; Katy Faust; Stacy Manning; Them Before Us; H. J. Sants; genealogical bewilderment; egg donor; sperm donor; Big Fertility;

Adoption. In my last two programmes I talked about the incredible biolological changes that happen in the biological parents of a newly conceived child and that keep on going through to their child’s early, even teen years. Not every biological couple can have children though, and these days same sex couples are also allowed to adopt children. Adoption’s a great way to go if you want children and can’t have them naturally yourselves. But there’s a massive problem that comes with adoption, for the adopted children, and that means for the adopting parents too, and I should start the programme there. Tag words: Adoption; baby boom era; Them Before Us; Katy Faust; Stacy Manning; Erik Erickson; Sue Erikson Bloland; Biological parents; The Primal Wound; Nancy Newton Verrier; adoptees' bible; Julianne Jaz; normal ego; false self;

I’m looking into the market for buying babies. But first I’m covering off what happens when a man and a woman, who are married, preferably, or are living together, have children. In the first part I looked at the incredible things that the body does to prepare the babies biological parents for what’s coming. In this programme I’m looking at what happens after the child has arrived, the role that the biological parents play in the lives of their children. Equally amazing. So the babies come home – possibly for the rest of your life – that’s called “entitled dependence” – or hopefully a lot less. I’m just going to stick to the formative years though. And I have to tell you that mummies and daddies behave differently with their baby – each making enormously important contributions to what success a child will have in life. If they’re missing one, or the other, they are most likely going to have problems in life. Tag words: babies; biological parents; entitled dependence; Dr Louann Brizendine; The Male Brain; hormones; testosterone; vasopressin; #MeToo; Jeffrey Epstein; Predators;

It seems like only yesterday that it was illegal to buy babies – but then we have science to thank for new developments that have made that possible. Also society has made major changes to what is acceptable creating the demand for babies for people who couldn’t get babies the usual way themselves, same sex couples. In this programme I’m going to start by looking at the old-fashioned way people got babies and the in-built mechansims that came into play from pregnancy to birth, then I’ll be looking at children born in answer to the demand of adults where the egg or the sperm, or both, are obtained from a third party which third party usually will never have any further connection with the child produced from their egg or sperm. Sometimes one of the people involved in getting the baby will contribute their egg or sperm, but the other side of the equation will be obtained from a donor – usually an unknown stranger. Sometimes all of that applies, and sometimes it may be that the egg and the sperm both, are provided by the future parents but a woman, who is most likely unrelated to the couple, will be the surrogate mother – she’ll carry the fertilised egg through to birth and then, usually, immediately relinquish the child to her paying customers without having anything at all to do with the baby that she just gave birth to. There’s always been the long debate with science on the issue of whether we should do something for the simple reason that we can. Then there are the arguments that that is no reason to do something that perhaps we shouldn’t be doing. This seems, to me, to be one of those areas. We’ve been doing this sort of thing with sperm and egg donors and surrogate mothers for long enough now for there to be children who, today, are old enough to let us know how this sort of situation is working out for them. They are clearly entitled to a voice that must be heard and weighed on the scales to decide if we should continue to do this or ban it. The result of all these new techniques is that babies are being born that could never be born otherwise. People are buying babies to demand. Being able to buy another human being seems like a horrible thing for our society to allow. So me tell you what happens when a baby is conceived in the old fashioned way by a man and a woman who are living together and intend to bring up the child as their own. It would be far far better if they were married, to give the child the chance of having those biological parents while the child is growing into an independent human being, but that’s another issue. Tag words: Louann Brizendine MD; The Female Brain; The Male Brain; mommy brain; progesterone; cortisol; fetus; placenta; pregnancy; ultrasound; Dads; testosterone; prolactin; pheromones; Couvade syndrome; baby; mother; father;

In 1882 the German philosopher, Nietzsche, said “God is Dead”. He was right – or he had been right for a few days. But how was it possible for God to die? No other religion even comes close to imagining such a thing – it would be an affront to any of their gods. In 500 BC the famous Greek philosopher, Socrates wrote to Plato: “It may be that the deity can forgive sins, but I do not see how”. These two burning issues plague our secular world and defy every other religion which offers no solution for sin. God had a profoundly different way to cure the problems of the fallen world which the secularists and no other religion had in their myths. Tag words: Nietzsche; God is Dead; Socrates; Plato; God; The Gay Science; crucifixion; Jesus Christ; Christianity; Christian; the Bible; Old Testament; Alexander the Great; Gordium; the Gordian Knot; Aristotle; Romans 1:17; Martin Luther; Daniel 9:25; Gabriel;  Daniel; Messiah King;; Daniel 9:25; Nebuchadnezzar; Ataxerxes; Persian Empire; Jesus Christ; Luke 19:41-42; Mary Magdalene; Amaeus; Galilee; Mount of Olives; 1 Corinthians 15:6; Genesis 1:1-2; Genesis 2:7; John 20:21-23; Mark 16:15-16; Pentecost; Ascension; Acts 1:3; David Bentley Hart; Garden of Gethsemane; Lazarus; John 18:9;

When you look at something on the internet today you’ve just gotta wonder. So much rubbish there. So many lies dressed up as the truth. For me the good posts are the ones that are obviously wrong and funny – like the quote attributed to US President Abraham Lincoln who lived in the 1800s, before there was electricity and the internet. The meme on Facebook “quoted” him as saying “You can’t believe everything you read on Facebook”. So when your ten closest friends tell you something that just isn’t possible but which they said they’d seen with their own eyes do you believe them? And can you still be friends with someone that you’ve just seriously failed in their hour of greatest need? I’m Paul and let’s find out in this CYKIAE. Tag words: Facebook; Thomas; Didymus; Jerusalem; Lazarus; Jesus Christ; John 11:14-16; Pontius Pilate; the Last Supper; John 14:1-4; John 14:5; Cleopas; John 20:24-25; God; John 20:26-29; Mark 16:7; John 21:2-3; John 21:5-6; the Bible; John 21:7; John 21:8; John 21:9; John 21:10-11; Simon Peter; Isaiah 50:6; Isaiah 52:14; John 21:15; John 21:16; John 21:17; John 21:18-19; John 21:20-21;

A lot of people these days have been brought back from the dead thanks to the miracles of modern science. After a person’s been determined to be dead for a short period of time. But what happens if you’ve been dead for days – nothing modern science can do to bring that person back. What happens to that person when life returns to them? The evidence is that, besides other things, the person shows a great sense of humour and a voracious appetite. It’s the little details. Tag words: Mary Cleopas; Jesus Christ; Messiah; Clopas; John 19:25; Luke 19:13-33; Sanhedrin; Joseph of Arimathea; Pontius Pilate: crucifixion; Mary Magdalene; Nicodemus; Old Testament; resurrection; Roman guards; high sabbath; tomb; Easter Sunday; road to Emmaus; Luke 24:13-14; Luke 24:15-16; Isaiah 50:6; Isaiah 52:14; Revelation 5:6; Luke 24:17-19; Luke 24:19-21; Luke 24:22-24; Luke 24:25-27; Luke 24:28-29; Luke 24:30; Luke 24:31; Luke 24:32-33; Luke 24:33-35; Luke 24:36-40; Luke 24:41-43; Luke 24:44-46; John 20:21-23; God;

In about 1995 the modern superstring theory was announced. It was revolutionary. It said that there were 11 dimensions. Bill Bryson, in his book, “A Short History of Nearly Everything”, tells us that these dimensions were the three that we already knew about – length, breadth and depth – plus time (which we also knew about). There are also another 7 dimensions that are unknowable to us. How staggering? Scientific progress. Well except of course God knows all about the universe. From the Bible, a source of considerable scientific knowledge, a Hebrew sage named Nachmanides, living in Spain in the 12th Century, told us that there were 10 dimensions (4 known to us and 6 that were unknowable). He’s probably right – 10 not 11. Chapter 1 of the Book of Genesis was his source. So the 1995 announcement was really very old news. The story of Jesus, from the resurrection until his return to heaven, is repeatedly the story of these other dimensions unknoweable to us - known only to God. This programme is about Jesus and the superstring theory – and the resurrection of Jesus after his crucifixion. Tag words: Bill Bryson; A Short History of Nearly Everything; Nachmanides; God; Book of Genesis; The Bible; Jesus Christ; Messiah; crucifixion; Herod; Matthew 28:11; Roman guard; the tomb; Joseph of Arimathea; Matthew 28:1-4; Matthew 28:11; Matthew 28:12-15; empty tomb; 14th of Nisan; 17th of Nisan; Great Flood; Noah; Ararat; Old Testament; New Testament; Chuck Missler; Mark 16:3-8; sepulchre; Luke 24:4-8; Luke 24:11; John 20:3-10; Mary Magdalene; John; Peter; John 20:11-18; Aramaic; Rabboni;

In 1970 Andrew Lloyd Webber wrote the lyrics for the musical Jesus Christ Superstar. In the title song to the musical Superstar, Judas asks what seems to be a reasonable question of Jesus: Why'd you choose such a backward time and such a strange land? If you'd come today, you would have reached a whole nation, Israel in 4BC had no mass communication. Today we know that Jesus had far less chance of getting his message out today than he did in 28 AD. The atheist religion is even more vocal against Jesus today than the pharisees were at the time of Jesus’s crucifixion. In today’s world of social media, truth is not only optional, it is mostly shunned. Today’s CYKIAE is about Jesus after his death and before his resurrection – about things that aren’t usually given a lot of attention – but wow, they are amazing. Tag words: Andrew Lloyd Webber; Jesus Christ Superstar; Judas; Jesus Christ; Messiah; God; The Bible; crucifixion; Heavy the head that wears the crown; Pontius Pilate; First Fruits; Jews; Joseph of Arimathea; Mark 15:43-44; Caiaphas; Annas; Golgotha; centurion; Mark 15:45; Roman centurion; John 19:38-39; Nicodemus; Sanhedrin; Talmud; Roman siege of Jerusalem; John 19:41; Gospel; high sabbath; John 19: 40; Luke 23:55-56; Galilee; Mary Magdalene; Mary the mother of Jesus; disciple James; Joseph; Salome, the mother of the disciples another James and John; Matthew 27:60; Mark 8:31; Temple; Passover; Matthew 27:62-66; the tomb;

David, the man who as a very young boy killed the giant Goliath, wrote a poem (a psalm) when he was King of Israel, about 1,000 years before Jesus was crucified. It reads as a staggering account, by Jesus, of his crucifixion and death.   Now remember that the Old Testament was translated into Greek by over 70 scholars (why it’s called the Septuagint – from the Latin for 70) in about 275BC. At that time most Jews didn’t speak Hebrew. So the Old Testament is locked in as being 100% genuine – written a long time before the birth of Jesus and full of prophecies of the coming of Jesus. The most staggering by far is what the Angel Gabriel told Daniel (the man in the lion’s den). It predicted about 650 years ahead of time the exact day that Jesus would enter Jerusalem on the ass – Palm Sunday. So in today’s programme Jesus final moments on the cross are explored and he is brought down from the cross dead – with the perfection of his promise to rise from the dead yet to be fulfilled. Tag words: David; Goliath; Old Testament; the Septuagint; Latin; Hebrew; Angel Gabriel; Daniel; lion’s den; Palm Sunday; John 19:26-27; Mary; Matthew 27:46-47; Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani; My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me; Elias; Elijah; Psalm 22:1; the Passover; sacrificial lamb; Kind David; Paul; 2 Corinthians 5:21; Jesus Christ; the Messiah; the Bible; Isaiah; Isaiah 53:10; Psalm 22:15; Matthew 27:33-34; Psalm 69; Psalm 69:21; John 19:28-29; Psalm 22:14; John 19:23-24; Psalm 22:18; John 19:30; Psalm 22:31; Luke 23:45-46; Psalm 22:14; Deuteronomy 21:22-23; Feast of Unleavened Bread; pharisees; John 19:31; Pontius Pilate; Cavalry; John 19:32-33; John the Baptist; John 1:29; Passover Lamb; Exodus 12:5; Satan; John 19:6; Moses; Exodus 12:46; Psalm 34:20; Roman soldiers; God; John 19:34; Mary Magdalene; Mary the mother of Jesus; Salome; Joseph of Arimathea; Luke 23:50-56; sepulchre;

Jesus wasn’t crucified on Good Friday. Excruciating is a word that comes from Christ’s crucifixion. Why does Richard Dawkins, atheist hero extraordinaire, have his knickers in a twist for all of the wrong reasons, again, over a story from the Old Testament that’s really all about Jesus that he doesn’t understand anyway – as usual? Stick around and find out. Tag words: Jesus Christ; the Messiah; crucifixion; the disciples; Matthew 12:40; Abraham; Isaac; pharisees; Son of God; Son of Man; John 8:56-58; Richard Dawkins; GK Chesterton; Ishmael; Hagar; Sarah; Arab nation; Genesis 22; Genesis 22:7-8; Mount Moriah; Golgotha; Calvary; Luke 23:27-2; Temple; fall of Jerusalem; Cicero; Alexander the Great; Judaea; Caponius; asphyxiate; Isaiah 53:5-8; Psalm 22; King David; Isaiah 53:12; Psalm 22:16; Matthew 27:39-43; Luke 23:39-43; Grace; God Redeems at Christ’s Expense; John 3:16;

The greatest injustice in the history of the world was about to happen. Pontius Pilate, Jesus’ judge, was blackmailed into sentencing an innocent man, the only man who never sinned, to death. There’s much more subtlety to this than “Jesus Christ Superstar” revealed – but then it’s my job to give you the real story in this programme. Tag words: Pontius Pilate; Jesus Christ Superstar; Matthew 27:12-14; Luke 23:13-15; John 18:33-36; John 18:37-38; John 14:6; John 18:38-40; Luke 23:16-17; Luke 23:18-22; Old Testament; New Testament; The Bible; Genesis 3:15; Isaiah 53:7; Isaiah 50:6; Isaiah 52:14; Mark 15:16-19; Roman soldiers; Jesus Christ; Barabbas; John 19:4-8; Son of God; Son of Man; John 19:9-11; John 19:13-15; of the Passover; Caesar; Matthew 27:19; Matthew 27:20-26; Jerusalem; John 19:19-22; Caiaphus; King of the Jews; Yahweh; Yeshua HaNazarei v Melech HaYehudim; Jesus the Nazarene; King of the Jews; acrostic;