A psychologist specializing in families for over twenty five years, Steve Biddulph is today one of the world’s best known parenting authors. His books are simple, powerful, funny, and down-to-earth. They also have a deeper side, they stand against the tide of consumerist feel-good parenting advice, with their clear criticism of the madness of modern life and the isolation and loss of community that it brings about for struggling mothers and fathers.

Each of Steve’s books confronts an underlying social problem on a wide scale, and have contributed to changes in thinking about the needs of children. The Secret of Happy Children tackled the deeply negative style of parenting in people of northern European descent - based on his own cultural roots in Yorkshire in the 1950’s – “The World Capital of Negative Parenting”. It brought humour, storytelling, and earthy honesty to the whole genre of parenting advice books.

More Secrets dealt with ways to get toddlers and children to behave without using hitting or shouting, at the same time affirming the need for parents to be in charge – with warmth, but firmness based on a clear sense of helping a child think through what works best. It also was the first book to question the practice of putting under twos in childcare, which has now been widely validated by recent research.

The Making of Love addressed the widespread 1980’s epidemic of disposable marriage, the fact that most divorces were preventable and needless.

Steve’s most influential book Manhood broke the log jam on thinking about males, and has lead to significant attitude change in the helping professions around the world, father friendly workplace practices, paternity leave, counselling services and health services addressing men, but above all the recognition amongst ordinary fathers that they have a clear and precious role in their sons and daughters lives, beyond just being a “walking wallet”. Manhood has also healed the rift between thousands of men and their own fathers, a unique instance of reconciliation prompted through the written word.

Raising Boys followed soon after, and has been the first parenting book in history to be a number one bestseller in countries from Australia to Brazil, Ireland to Japan.

Steve brings background in working with high need families, working with Vietnam veterans and emergency services, a specialist practice in the care of rape, trauma and abuse victims, directorship of the Collinsvale Centre training therapists and counsellors, and a consultancy worldwide in making schools more boy-effective. Today he divides his time between campaigning and speaking worldwide to parents, and involvement in social justice and environmental issues in his own country Australia.

He has raised almost a quarter of a million dollars in the past three years for human rights campaigns and assistance to refugee families and children mistreated in Australian government detention centres, which have been the subject of widespread criticism and concern among health and child welfare professionals. In particular, Steve co-leads and funds the SievX National Memorial Project, to remember, and help the victims of this tragedy in which 300 refugee mothers and children died under suspicious circumstances on a vessel trying to reach safety in Australia.

Steve lives in Tasmania, with co-author Shaaron Biddulph, among their extensive extended family and a wide range of recovering native animals.