My Perfect Family: Hatty

My Perfect Family: Ebony Sinclair

Ebony Sinclair is a go-getter born with Achondroplasia, a form of dwarfism. Ebony and her husband Ge...

My Perfect Family:Fragile X

To discover you’re the carrier of the genetic condition Fragile X only after your children are born ...

My Perfect Family: Nash Jones

The Jones family’s life changed forever when their youngest boy Nash was diagnosed with a rare condi...

My Perfect Family

Exploring the day today lives of tight-knit families, who are managing complex or unusual conditions...

My Perfect Family: Lydia Golding

6-year-old Lydia Golding was born with her right femur bone significantly shorter than her left. In...

My Perfect Family: Twins

For young mum Nikki Stokes being a mother of five means there's never a dull moment. With non-verbal...

My Perfect Family: Georgia Heard

Georgia Heard thought she had parenting all mapped out. But when the younger of her two boys was di...

My Perfect Family: Family Man Graeme

When Graeme Porter was diagnosed with an intellectual disability as a child no one expected him to r...

My Perfect Family: Martine

Blind since birth, Martine Able-Williamson is now a global leader in the blind community. In this i...

My Perfect Family: Little People

The 50th annual conference for Little People of New Zealand (LPNZ) is fast approaching, and 27-year-...

My Perfect Family: Tiffiney Perry

Always an active person, Tiffiney Perry continued participating in sports and achieving success afte...

My Perfect Family: Grace Payne

Grace Payne is a powerlifter who has competed in the Special Olympics as an autistic athlete. Now, 2...

My Perfect Family: Tri Rugby

For members of Christchurch's Tri Rugby team - who live with intellectual disabilities - rugby is mo...

My Perfect Family: Courtenay

Demar Gear was just five months old when she contracted meningitis, leaving her unable to walk or ta...

My Perfect Family: Zoe

Zoe Tate lives with Wolf-Hirschhorn Syndrome, a genetic disorder affecting her appearance, growth an...

My Perfect Family: Friedreich's Ataxia

Preparing for a 30th birthday is a big deal in the Boon family. Three out of five siblings live with...

My Perfect Family: Kat and Ella

Kat Yearbury is a mother to two-year-old Frankie and six-year-old Ella, who has Cerebral Palsy and E...

My Perfect Family: CDKL5

Learning your new baby has a complex rare condition is life altering. Three Mums connect over their ...

My Perfect Family: Max and Grace

Siblings Max and Grace are off on a road trip to Queenstown, putting Max's independence to the test ...

My Perfect Family: Perrones

Young anime artist Bee Perrone lives with the rare condition, Ivemark Syndrome. Understanding this i...

My Perfect Family: Harper Ahern

Since being diagnosed with Muscular Dystrophy at age four, 10-year-old surfer Harper and his family ...

My Perfect Family: No Respite

Life during a pandemic is a challenge for all parents with kids at home. But for parents whose child...

My Perfect Family: Scruff's Bunch

Kim Preston (Scruff) reckon's she'll be caring for her three adult sons with Autism until she 'carks...

My Perfect Family: The Fergusons Part 2

Last week we met the Fergusons, a family of five who communicate using NZSL. Here, we join the Fergu...

My Perfect Family: Tara Aumalesulu

Nine year old Tara is launching her very first album, Pele O Lo’u Fatu. Living with visual impairmen...

My Perfect Family: Sam and Jason

Sam lost her sight as a baby due to meningitis, and her husband Jason has limited vision due to a ge...

My Perfect Family: Candle Dad

Raising four children alone is a challenge - more so, when two have Down Syndrome. Tony Sykes rose t...

My Perfect Family: Welcome Home Stevie

Murray and Janine's son Steven was a gentle boy with autism. 18 months ago he left their house with ...

My Perfect Family: Melody

Within just one year Melody entirely lost her vision, gave birth to her first child, and left her ho...

My Perfect Family: OCD

For two teenage sisters living with OCD, the world can often be an uncertain and scary place. In the...

My Perfect Family: Creative Clan

Ranger Ashurst is eleven and needs regular injections to control his Chrone's disease, his eight yea...

My Perfect Family: Meet the Asners

They call themselves the "The Brady Bunch of Autism". Descendants of Hollywood royalty, Matt and Nav...

Brothers and Sisters

The unique perspective of those closest to us, our brothers and sisters.

My Perfect Family: Southland

Southland Disability Enterprises employs over 80 people who live with a disability. For Mary-Ellen J...

My Perfect Family: The Fergusons Part 1

The Fergusons are an average family of five; they have fun, they fight, but mostly they get along. ...

My Perfect Family: Malaena Cariño

12-year-old Malaena Cariño has a rare genetic form of epilepsy. Her whānau have exhausted most treat...

My Perfect Family: Jaxon Woolley

15 year old Jaxon Woolley is already blitzing through para-sprinting records. An athlete to watch, J...

My Perfect Family: Jo & Leon

Young doctor Jo Scott’s career was on the rise when a brain haemorrhage changed her life. Seven year...

My Perfect Family: Hunter

Hunter McGregor is a passionate gamer, a design school graduate, and he runs a B&B with his mum, Roi...

My Perfect Family: Southland Lockdown

Awards Night is the highlight of the social calendar for a vulnerable workforce at Southland Disabil...

My Perfect Family: Kim Preston

Raising three boys is always a big task, especially when two of them have severe autism. But Kim Pre...

My Perfect Family: Cystic Sisters

Kristy and Nikki are sisters and young mums who bring smiles to the faces of strangers by doing surp...

My Perfect Family: Bold As Brass

As New Zealanders living in Australia, Abbi and Morgan Brass received no government support when the...

My Perfect Family: Alex

Performance is in the Walsh family’s DNA. When their youngest son Alex was born with Down syndrome, ...

My Perfect Family: The Priestleys

Four of the six Priestley family members live with Autism. Because they’re able to function at a hig...

My Perfect Family: Mahia & Tipene

Mahia and Tipene Stephens were born with a congenital eye disorder, causing their eyesight to deteri...