The number of parents being terrorised and assaulted by their violent children is growing, parenting charities warn. Children and young people’s violence against parents is “the last taboo” of family life and goes largely unreported as parents attempt to protect their aggressive offspring from authorities, they say. The charity Family Lives has seen an increasing [...]
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Rise in parents terrorised by their children – The Independent
Posted on 18 February 2012.
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Dear Mariella: I want children but my boyfriend doesn’t. We have a great relationship, but is there any future for us? | The Observer
Posted on 12 February 2012.
The dilemma I am a recently divorced woman of 34 years who has no regrets leaving a bad marriage. There were no kids involved, although I do hope to experience motherhood one day. During the dying throes of my marriage I fell in love with another man who is 18 years older than me. We [...]
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Family courts pioneer shared parenting orders | guardian.co.uk
Posted on 10 February 2012.
Judges and lawyers are already anticipating the government’s proposed reforms to the status of separated parents by pioneering ‘shared residence orders’, according to a leading family solicitor. The orders, under which children are looked after by both parents, are becoming increasingly common, says Jonathan West, head of family and matrimonial at the firm Prolegal. Earlier [...]
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Grandparents must have ‘clear rights’ to see grandchildren when couples split – Telegraph
Posted on 06 February 2012.
The government wants more divorcing couples to reach agreement on access to their children without resorting to costly and stressful court action to settle custody disputes. In future, separating parents will be encouraged to agree to give children contact with their grandparents when signing up to the arrangements, under the plan. Ministers will stop short [...]
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BBC News – David Norgrove criticises child access shake-up
Posted on 05 February 2012.
A family justice system shake-up giving children legal rights to maintain relationships with both parents after separation has been criticised by the man who chaired a review of the rules. David Norgrove voiced “regret” after it emerged that his recommendation that such a statement risked “confusion” and “false expectations” had been rejected. Ministers are formally [...]
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Experience: my son was abducted | The Guardian
Posted on 03 February 2012.
It was a day like any other. I got back from work, called out my wife’s name, Kim, and waited for my little boy, Jobe, then two, to come running up to me as usual. Nothing happened; the house was silent. The washing was still on the line, so I assumed they’d popped out. Day turned [...]
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Tanith Carey: 34 years on, I still bear the scars of my parents’ divorce | Mail Online
Posted on 03 February 2012.
Even now, I can still remember the exact spot in my bedroom where my mother was standing as she announced she was divorcing my father. My parents had been due to emigrate to Australia for a ‘fresh start’ after years of affairs, separations and recriminations. I was ten so I still believed in ‘happily-ever-afters’. I [...]
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Divorced fathers to get more contact with their children in custody law shakeup | The Guardian
Posted on 03 February 2012.
Fathers will get improved contact with their children following divorce, amid plans to rewrite the law governing custody disputes. A ministerial working group will decide how to amend the Children’s Act 1989 and might include in it a “presumption of shared parenting”. The changes are part of an overhaul in family law that is described [...]
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Fathers get stronger access rights
Posted on 03 February 2012.
New rules will be “much clearer that it is vital for children to have an ongoing relationship with both parents”, the Department for Education said. However ministers looked set to disappoint fathers’ rights campaigners by ruling out any legal guarantee of equal access. A review led by former mandarin David Norgrove last year rejected the [...]
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Children win legal right to see both parents after divorce – Telegraph
Posted on 03 February 2012.
Ministers intend to rewrite the law in an attempt to ensure that fathers get improved access to their offspring after a marriage breaks down. Currently, family courts decide to leave children with their mothers in the vast majority of divorce cases. Campaigners have long complained that without a legal right to see their children, fathers [...]
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A divorce can never be good for children no matter how amicable it is, says study | Mail Online
Posted on 02 February 2012.
There is no such thing as a good divorce when children are involved, a study has concluded. The analysis of almost 1,000 families found that children suffer when their parents’ marriage ends – no matter how amicable the split. The researchers said their finding contradicts the widely-held belief that it is possible to have a [...]
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French Jewish mother wins custody battle against Saudi prince – Telegraph
Posted on 01 February 2012.
The Paris criminal court ordered Prince Sattam al-Saud from the kingdom’s founding royal family, to hand over custody of his daughter Aya to her French mother, Candice Cohen-Ahnine, and provide child support of €10,000 (£8,300) a month. For the past three-and-a-half years, the prince has kept Aya in a Riyadh palace despite efforts by the [...]
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Diary of a separation | The Guardian
Posted on 29 January 2012.
It’s Wednesday afternoon on a week without children and I’m working at the kitchen table. In front of me are three mugs of tea in various stages of neglect, an empty yoghurt pot, some tangerine peel and, mystifyingly, a single sock. There are several teetering piles of papers, a toolbox, a jar of face cream [...]
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Stepmothers can be MORE loving than a real mum (that’s why my stepson chose to live with me) | Mail Online
Posted on 26 January 2012.
Every woman knows, deep down, that the much-vaunted maternal instinct isn’t nearly as ‘natural’ as society makes it out to be. In fact in my experience – and I know I will be roundly condemned for this view – this means that some women can even be better at taking care of and understanding a [...]
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One in five children from broken homes lose touch with parent | Mail Online
Posted on 25 January 2012.
One in five children from broken homes lose one parent from their lives for good, official figures reveal. Preparing to unveil plans to tackle the problem, families minister Maria Miller said parents should take responsibility for their offspring for life and reach civilised agreements. ‘We want to make sure parents are aware of the effect [...]
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Quarter of children now live with lone parent – The Independent
Posted on 20 January 2012.
The steady rise in single-parent families was highlighted yesterday as official statistics showed there are now almost two million in the UK. The figures from the Office for National Statistics revealed that almost one in four children (24 per cent) now live in lone-parent families, up from 22 per cent in 2001. One in seven [...]
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Single-parent families reach two million – Telegraph
Posted on 20 January 2012.
As more couples shun weddings, children are increasingly likely to live with unmarried parents as married ones. Some 8,000 same-sex couples now have children, the Office for National Statistics said, while almost 8million people are living alone. The figures highlight the continuing decline in popularity of marriage, despite claims that it provides the most stable [...]
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Britain has two million single parent families with majority of children raised by mother alone | Mail Online
Posted on 20 January 2012.
There are now nearly two million single parent families in Britain, official figures revealed yesterday. The vast majority are headed by a mother, meaning that millions of children are being raised in households where there is no father. The figures, from the Office for National Statistics, showed that more than one in four families – [...]
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Single mum Julie Jones adopts best friend’s FIVE orphaned children | Mail Online
Posted on 13 January 2012.
Julie Jones describes the day her best friend died as ‘the worst day of my life’. But she didn’t have time to grieve. The single mum-of-three had agreed to adopt Caroline Atkin’s three boys and two girls who had been orphaned by the loss of both their parents within six months of each other. Caroline [...]
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Lesbian couple in custody battle after one woman donated egg and the other had it implanted into womb | Mail Online
Posted on 04 January 2012.
A lesbian couple was caught up in an extraordinary custody battle after both women claimed they were the real mother of their young daughter. After the pair split, one woman insisted she was the mom because she donated the egg. But her estranged partner claimed she was better qualified because she had the egg implanted [...]
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Single-parent Britain: One in five children lives with just mum or dad – more than in most of Europe
Posted on 29 December 2011.
A higher proportion of children are being brought up in one-parent families in Britain than in any other major European country.
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Heart-risk family ‘forced to leave their home after council sells it’ | News
Posted on 25 November 2011.
A single mother has told of her fears of being made homeless after she and her two daughters were denied priority council housing – despite all of them suffering heart problems. Gemma Brannan and daughters Ellie-Jade, 12, and Alana-May, nine, have just over two weeks to find somewhere to live after being told to vacate [...]
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Parents applaud huge breakthrough as Gove’s great schools shake-up spreads to special needs children
Posted on 14 November 2011.
A major breakthrough in Michael Gove’s education revolution will be heralded tomorrow with the launch of the first-ever ‘free schools’ for special needs children.
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Charlie Condou: The three of us
Posted on 05 November 2011.
Two dads, one mum – one family
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Ken Livingstone: How two friends asked me to father their children
Posted on 24 October 2011.
Ken Livingstone has revealed for the first time the secret families he fathered.
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Ms Dynamite: Juggling my career with motherhood is such a blast
Posted on 11 October 2011.
Urban music star Ms Dynamite told today how she combines motherhood and her career by sometimes doing the school run in the same clothes she has just performed in.
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I met my Romeo at a Tesco till
Posted on 10 October 2011.
Irish ballet starlet who studied under Russia’s fiercest teachers found love at the checkout
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‘Win a baby!’ Canadian radio station is criticised for its ‘tacky’ fertility treatment competition
Posted on 10 October 2011.
A radio station in Canada has been criticised by fertility groups after launching a competition for listeners to ‘win a baby’.
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Charlie Condou: The three of us
Posted on 09 October 2011.
Two dads, one mum – one family
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The mother ‘who tried to sell her one-month-old son to a friend for $15,000′
Posted on 06 October 2011.
A Pennsylvania woman is charged with trying to sell her newborn child to a friend for a price of $15,000.
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Mother, 19, left baby home alone in unlocked house while she went drinking and meeting men
Posted on 03 October 2011.
A teenage mother has been told she is allowed to keep her baby despite leaving the 12-month-old home alone in an unlocked house while she went to the pub.
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Single mother spotted trying on stolen trainers during looting is jailed for eight months
Posted on 01 October 2011.
A single mother pictured trying on looted trainers outside JD Sports during the London riots was jailed for eight months today.
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Now for the good news on adoption
Posted on 30 September 2011.
Adoption is complex. Within one seemingly damning statistic, there are many successes
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Having ovaries doesn’t make you a better person
Posted on 25 September 2011.
The notion that women would make a better fist of running the world than men is risible
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Boy’s body was decomposing in cellar for two years while his mother and five siblings lived upstairs
Posted on 25 September 2011.
The body of a little boy lay decomposing in a cellar for up to two years while his mother lived upstairs with his five siblings, it emerged yesterday.
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Bike tumble ‘saved my daughter’s life’
Posted on 23 September 2011.
Doctors find girl, 4, has rare kidney tumour
Posted in Childhood illnesses, Health, Just for Dads, One Parent familiesComments Off
‘I feel like I’m the mum and she’s the kid’
Posted on 20 September 2011.
What’s it like to parent your own mother because she’s too ill or unstable to look after herself? Kelly Rose Bradford reports
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Single parents ‘cannot afford’ coalition’s child maintenance fees
Posted on 17 September 2011.
Gingerbread charity says nearly 300,000 families could go without child maintenance under proposals in welfare reform bill
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Typical family will see living standards drop as incomes fall ‘by £4,600 a year by 2013′ due to cuts and wage freezes
Posted on 10 September 2011.
Average-income single parents living in London to be hit hardest
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It’s three years since you died, my darling, but every time I look at our precious baby I see you…
Posted on 08 September 2011.
Three years ago, 27-year-old Gareth Wilkinson lost his battle with bone cancer.
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Toddler taken into care after mother was branded a ‘drunk’ by police… when she had collapsed in the street from brain aneurysm
Posted on 07 September 2011.
Spotted ‘asleep’ in Chatham in middle of December
Young son beside her had no shoes and toes were blue
Now reunited, but single mum has been through ‘hell’
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And baby makes two…
Posted on 06 September 2011.
Newly single, nearing 40 and longing to be a mother, Karin Thayer decided to go it alone. But little did she know how difficult her journey to parenthood would prove to be
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Beyonce Knowles reveals pregnancy at MTV Video Music Awards
Posted on 31 August 2011.
The ‘Run the World (Girls)’ singer arrived at the MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs) in a loose fitting orange dress, and clutched her visible baby bump as she posed on the red carpet.
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Singer Jamelia: Why do we still vilify single mothers?
Posted on 29 August 2011.
As one of 1.8 million single mothers living in Britain, Jamelia feels they are still demonised in the media and stigmatised with a sense of shame, shared with single mums in the past.
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Peaches Geldof: Why was I allowed to have tattoos aged 14?
Posted on 29 August 2011.
Peaches Geldof, the daughter of the rock star and Live Aid founder Bob Geldof, says she regrets every one of her many tattoos.
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Jamelia: Respect for single mothers!
Posted on 20 August 2011.
Single mothers have always been harshly treated and some people are even blaming them for the recent English riots. Give us a break, says singer Jamelia, who is raising two daughters on her own
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Mother refuses to take riot suspect son back over fear of losing home
Posted on 20 August 2011.
The mother of a suspected rioter today said she let him remain behind bars rather than risk being evicted from her £1 million council house and left “on the streets”.
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I’m supersizing to be the world’s fattest woman, says 52st mother of two (but she’s only halfway there)
Posted on 18 August 2011.
‘Big Beautiful’ fans helping her in her bid
Her 4,900 calorie main course at dinner consists of 12 filled tacos
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School run mother was so drunk when she picked up her 7-year-old that deputy headteacher confiscated car keys
Posted on 17 August 2011.
A mother was so drunk when she arrived at school to pick up her seven-year-old daughter she had her car keys confiscated by the deputy headteacher.
Posted in At School, Family matters, Headteachers, Just Mums, One Parent familiesComments Off
No marriage for Bert and Ernie, says Sesame Street
Posted on 12 August 2011.
There have long been whispers, but Sesame Street has finally addressed the rumours: Bert and Ernie are best friends, but that does not mean they are gay.
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