Advice ignored since 1925: Courts are not good for children
28 October 2022: A century ago in 1925, the barrister Sir Claud Schuster warned the law-makers that decisions made in
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How parents give their children happy lives
Major scientific studies show how parents give their children happy lives. It’s not as simple as the headline sounds. Science
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Children simply want happy homes
A recent big post-pandemic survey of 4 to 17 year olds in England gives us a positive picture of their
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UK Govt incentivises mediation
3 June 2022: The UK Government has added £5.4 million in funding to the scheme it launched in March 2021.
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Give families “green not harmful footprints”
If we don’t want families to go to war, then we shouldn’t offer them an adversarial justice system. We should
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50 suicides linked to break-ups
50 recent suicides in the county of Kent, UK, alone have been linked to relationship break-ups. This was one of
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Children need support, not just “no-fault divorce”
On 6 April 2022, England and Wales finally got “no-fault divorce” … but it’s too little, too late for hundreds
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Separating families need “support, not a boxing ring”
23 Mar, 2022: Separating families need “support, not a boxing ring,” says the Family Solutions Group, a group of family
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Cut off from family, they “gave up and died”
The “big scandal” of Covid was that some isolated care home residents “gave up and died” because they were unable
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27,000 UK children need not be in care
In her book “Behind Closed Doors” (2022), journalist Polly Curtis reports on her extensive investigation of children in the UK
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Kids in care: not actually home?
Big government systems can blindly break up small family systems. Sometimes – like Trump at the Mexico border and lockdown
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