Marriage makes a difference to Irish children
State needs to back families, not replace them, says Cameron
Fathers' names not needed on birth certs: UK Government
Child Benefit set to be cut for higher earners
Teenagers set high relationship standards, but fail to meet them: study
Members of the Catholic hierarchy are set to meet with the Department of Education next week to discuss the possible change of patronage of some Catholic-run schools in Dublin, a Dáil committee was told yesterday. Frank Wyse, assistant secretary general at the Department, said representatives from the Department would be meeting a delegation including Archbishop...
A married couple who had a newborn baby and their six other children taken into care after their parents were judged to be too overweight to look after them has had their baby returned home. However, their six other children remain in care. The mother gave birth to the little girl by Caesarean section at...
A new report shows a big decline in the health of marriage in the UK since 1970. The analysis was carried out by the Jubilee Centre, which describes itself as a Christian social reform organisation. It found that the overall health of marriage was 61.7 out of 100, as compared with 85 points in 1970,...
The US state of Maine voted against same-sex marriage in a referendum on Tuesday. It is the latest state to vote against same-sex marriage, after California, Florida and Arizona did so last year. A ballot initiative to reject the legislature’s move to legalise same-sex marriage won 53 per cent of the vote. Same-sex marriage has...
