My Perfect Family: Candle Dad

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: Martine

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

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: 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: Hunter

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

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: Courtenay

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

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: Creative Clan

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

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: Zoe

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

My Perfect Family: Meet the Asners

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

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: 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: Mahia & Tipene

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

My Perfect Family: Southland

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

Brothers and Sisters

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

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

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

My Perfect Family: Southland Lockdown

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

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: Bold As Brass

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

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: Jo & Leon

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

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: The Priestleys

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

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: Melody

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

My Perfect Family: CDKL5

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

My Perfect Family: Perrones

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

My Perfect Family: Hatty

Hatty Walton is a 13-year-old star on the show Mystic, who lives with a hearing impairment. Hatty ho...

My Perfect Family: Tri Rugby

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

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: Alex

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

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: Tiffiney Perry

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

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: Jaxon Woolley

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

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: Tara Aumalesulu

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

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: Lydia Golding

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

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: Ebony Sinclair

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