The number of stay-at-home mothers is falling by almost 10,000 per annum, despite the steep rise in unemployment figures, according to figures from the 2011 Census. According to the new figures, published today, show that there are now 230,645 married women working in the home, which represents a 12.9pc fall since the last Census in...
Single people and same-sex couples will be prevented from having children through surrogacy in the Australian state of Queensland, it was announced last week. The state’s governing Liberal National Party (LNP) also said that it would be changing the state’s civil partnership bill to make it less like marriage. MPs from the Katter Australian Party,...
One third of all births are outside marriage, according to new figures compiled by the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI). The figures, from 2010, show that 65.6pc of all births in that year were to married women, as compared to 32.8 for unmarried women. There were 75,245 births in total. The figures, published on...
Women who have IVF treatment early in adulthood are at greater risk of developing breast cancer, new research suggests. According to a new Australian study, published in the journal, Fertility and Sterility, women who went through the IVF procedure around their 24th birthday were found to have a 56 per cent greater chance of developing...
A New York lesbian couple has sued to force a Catholic hospital to provide them with insurance benefits by challenging the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). The same-sex couple has filed a lawsuit against Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield and St. Joseph’s Medical Center because one of St. Joseph’s divisions, St. Vincent’s Westchester,...
A coalition of 149 mostly Protestant religious leaders, have signed a letter objecting to the Obama Administration’s health insurance mandate which obliges religious organizations to put their employees in health insurance schemes that cover abortifacients, sterilisations and artificial contraception In a letter sent last week to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, the 149...
Cherie Blair (pictured) has attacked stay-at-home mothers, warning that it was ‘dangerous’ for women to rely on their husbands and set an example of dependency for their children. Mrs Blair criticised women who, she alleged, marry rich men in order to quit work and put their energies into raising children, reports The Daily Mail. The...
The Government’s proposed children’s rights referendum “will have major implications in the child protection and in the adoption area” one of the country’s leading experts on child law has said. Geoffrey Shannon, one of the co-authors of a damning report on the deaths of 196 children known to the HSE which was published earlier this...
One of Britain’s most respected religious leaders, Lord Jonathan Sacks (pictured), the Chief Rabbi of England, opposes Government plans to legalise same-sex marriage. The submission said that civil marriage for same-sex couples should be rejected because “any attempt to redefine this sacred institution would be to undermine the concept of marriage”. A carefully worded submission...
The findings of a report into the deaths of 196 children in care or known to the Health Service Executive have been branded “a disgrace” by Minister for Children, Frances Fitzgerald. The report, carried out by child law expert Geoffrey Shannon and Norah Gibbons of children’s charity Barnardos deals with the period 2000 to 2010....
