Social services in the UK failed on numerous occasions to intervene in the case of a toddler who ended up being killed by his father giving him methadone according to an independent review published on Tuesday. The report catalogued a series of failures by a range of professional bodies in the months before Jayden Lee...
Cohabiting couples in America are having more children, according to new US government figures. The number of births overall to cohabiting women increased from 14pc of all births in 2002 to 23pc in 2006-10, according to the first US government report since 1990 on intended and unintended births. Data released last month by the National...
The Government’s proposed children’s referendum will contain a reference to the “best interest” of the child, Minister for Children Frances Fitzgerald (pictured) has said. Legal experts have warned that the term “best interests” could be used in such a way as to make intervention by the State in family life too easy. Speaking on RTE...
Christians are still the largest religious group in the world number 2.2 billion in total, according to a new study. The research, compiled by the Pew Research Forum on Religion & Public Life, shows that most Christians now live in Africa, Asia and the Americas rather than Europe. Around one-quarter of the world’s Christian’s live...
Fathers in the UK may have to sign their child’s birth certificate under new proposals being considered by the Government. The idea is just one of a number of options being considered by the Prime Minister David Camerson in a bid to bolster the role of the father in UK society. It is thought by...
The rise in the number children born outside marriage in the US is being now being driven by a big increase in the number of children who are born to cohabiting couples, according to a new study. More than one-half of non-marital births occur within cohabiting relationships. In 2001, 52 percent of all nonmarital births...
Parenting is easier for those with partners, whether cohabiting or married, but married parents report the highest levels of happiness, according to a new report. The report, ‘When Baby Makes Three, How Parenthood Makes Life Meaningful and How Marriage Makes Parenthood Bearable’, also found that married parents experience more meaning in their lives than their...
Peter Tatchell (pictured), one of Britain’s leading gay rights activist has offered to testify in defence of a Christian employee who was disciplined because of comments he made online about same-sex civil partnerships. Tatchell, founder of the gay rights group OutRage, has offered his support to Adrian Smith, a housing manager with Trafford Housing Trust,...
Fear of a traumatic divorce is preventing many young couples from walking down the aisle, according to a new academic report. The study comes as new figures show the share of married adults is in the United States is at an all-time low of 50pc, with the trend especially marked among young people, according to...
Nick Clegg, the UK’s Deputy Prime Minister (pictured) has attacked Tory plans to introduce tax breaks for married couples, accusing ministers of trying to preserve a “1950s model” of family life. Tax breaks for married couples are a key demand of many Tory MPs and Prime Minister David Cameron has committed to their introduction before...
