A MOTHER who forced her children to eat Tabasco sauce as a form of punishment and brainwashed them not to call her former husband "dad" has been ordered by a court to undergo psychological treatment after a judge found her actions had been "entirely inappropriate".

A LEBANESE-Australian woman left destitute after a failed marriage has been ordered to return to the US with her two sons despite the Family Court accepting her claims that her Lebanese-American husband planned to take the boys to Lebanon, where they would "join Hezbollah and die like real men".

THE Family Court has permitted a teenage boy to have hormone treatment to become a girl.

THE Family Court has permitted a teenage boy to have hormone treatment to become a girl.

HUNDREDS of people who look after their grandchildren full-time risk losing a special payment worth between $400 and $600 per child a fortnight after the NSW Department of Community Services announced a review.