19 March 2012: Dog rescue centres are in crisis with too many dogs, not enough kennel spaces and thousands of healthy, beautiful animals being killed. Rescues are not only crying out for funding and a change in attitudes (Rescue Don’t Breed) to help solve this crisis, but also for temporary foster places. Could you help? With 10 reasons to foster a dog & a list of 40 rescues currently in need of foster carers.

6 February 2012: In the PIP breast implant debate, where was the analysis of the social backdrop which encourages women to have surgery. Just as having regular breasts is no longer a feminine benchmark, having a vagina is likewise irrelevant, unless it is a certain kind, hense the rise of labiaplasty.

25 September 2011: By a balance of probabilities the killer of Mark MacPhail remains unpunished. As does the killer of Troy Davis. 'Not knowing' is intolerable compared to making a potentially innocent man a murderer, because the latter allows us to make sense of the world with far less effort. We have to learn to live with doubt. To learn that convicted criminals are not always guilty and that justice is not always just.

8 June 2011: A positive innovation to replace maligned formula, or a grotesque corporate ethics-bending exercise. I’m with the latter and here’s why.

18 October 2010: Impoverished levels of supervised access for at-risk mothers and their babies, means the rupturing of attachment and an increased likelihood of abuse.

11 October 2010: Our society has a 20 second attention span and is obsessed with the objectification of women. So what better way to support a good cause than by getting women to sexualise and trivialise themselves through a meaningless, banal and effortless activity.

2 July 2010: From reproductive rights to teenage pregnancy and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) youth, sexuality education provides a vital foundation for human rights.

21 June 2010: In her twitter comments this week, Kim Kardashian summed up the fractured psychology which reveres sexualised boobs and reviles lactating breasts. But according to evolutionary biology, boobs are simply lactating breasts in disguise.

14 May 2010: Save the Children's Mothers' Index "ranks the best and worst places to be a mother". While valid as an expression of maternal and child mortality and other criteria used, it raises important questions about the imposition of Western values on mothering. If for example, you assess the countries according to breastfeeding targets, you can almost flip the ranking on its head.

27 April 2010: I have a dilemma. One which results from seeing gender as the right of individual expression, across a broad spectrum, while at the same time insisting on fundamental behavioral differences between the sexes as parents. Differences which only exist however, if the mother is allowed to express her biology.

23 April 2010: The fundamental assumptions behind world economics disregard the value of women, and the unpaid work of child rearing, maintaining homes and building communities.

15 April 2010: The pharmaceutical and political lobby have become savvy at persuading parents to vaccinate their children. Not by using scientific evidence, but by instilling fear and loathing of non-vaccinators into other parents. The main advantage of vaccination has become immunity from persecution.

27 March 2010: Alexander McQueen’s Spring 2010 runway collection “was a statement about the future of our world”. However the shoes in the collection – sky high platforms which restrict and distort movement - are distinctly historical, reflecting fashions of a bygone era by subjugating women with clothing and footwear specifically designed to restrict movement.

22 March 2010: Time Out has become the post-smacking disciplinary method of the 21st century. I have tried time-out with my trantruming 2 year old, but had a niggling feeling that something about it just wasn't right. Having now researched the subject further, I know why.

17 March 2010: “Breastfeeding becomes wrong when they start to talk”, yet adult men have been happily hanging off women's breasts for centuries. As a society we have become confused about what women's breasts are for - elevating their status as titillators and denigrating their function as nurturing life-givers.

14 March 2010: Supermarkets, including at least one chain in Christchurch New Zealand, which promote infant formula are breaching the International Code of Marketing of Breast-Milk Substitutes 1981 (ICMBMS). When a complaint was made by a visiting customer (a midwife who knows of the above code), she was told “there's nothing anyone can do to stop us”.

14 March 2010: Hard work by the father lobby has rightly ensured that fatherhood is more fully recognised. But is there a price to pay by young babies and infants who find themselves taken from Mum so they can spend half the week with Dad in fashionable 'shared care' arrangements?

A full list of links and articles posted on the Motherhood Denied facebook page, arranged by subject A-Z. Updated 15 June 2011.

From Breastfeeding Toddlers, Child Abuse, and Female Genital Mutilation, to LGBT, Midwifery, Psychology and Sexualisation.