Timesonline 09/03/10
It’s a typical Saturday night. I’ve been slaving over a hot stove for nearly two hours and the table is set with my best almost-matching cutlery and fresh flowers. A typical scene perhaps, but this is not a typical date . . .
Telegraph 08/03/10
An Australian woman has appealed to the courts to prevent her six-year-old daughter from calling her step-mother “mummy”.
Telegraph 28/01/10
Marriage is no longer regarded as the best form of relationship by younger generations, the largest survey of public attitudes in Britain shows.
Timesonline 28/01/10
The number of marriages ending in divorce has dropped for the fifth year in a row to a 33-year low.
Telegraph 26/01/10
A lesbian lost the right to care for her eight-year-old daughter when a court ordered that the girl go and live with her father even though she was “doing well” in her mother’s care.
Independent 27/01/10
Children’s Society finds that family conflict is the biggest source of misery
By Sarah Cassidy, Social Affairs Correspondent
Telegraph 26/01/10
Parents who argue are more likely to make their children unhappy than those who live apart, a report has claimed.
BBC News 27/01/10
Unhappiness in children is more likely to be influenced by conflict in their family than the family’s structure, research suggests.
Telegraph 26/01/10
Lesley Garner offers advice to a man whose wife has asked him to leave the family home.
Independent 23/01/10
All week the two main political parties have been bickering like an old married couple about the best way to bring up families. Like most fractious spouses, they don’t actually disagree about very much, but each small difference is an occasion to vent their mutual loathin