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Why is an unmarried father treated as a stranger to his baby if the mother dies in childbirth?03rd March 2012, 7:00am |
Earlier this month in North Wales, a mother died just after giving birth. She was not married to the father, though he was declared in the maternity records as the father. Afterwards, the father was not allowed to take the baby home until social workers had visited and gone to…
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I’m back!
03rd February 2012, 1:41pm |
After a period off-line, I’m back, with a whole new set of ideas about how to improve support for families. I have rejuvenated my blog (lots of pictures of leaping children!) and I have found a fantastic new foundation for my work at Connect Assist, led by Patrick Nash, the…
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Government declares policy to promote “shared parenting from pregnancy”: for things for their ‘to do’ list
21st June 2010, 5:48pm |
So Nick Clegg has confirmed that the Government intends to “encourage shared parenting from the earliest stage of pregnancy”. A great policy – two thirds of mothers and fathers think parents should share the responsibilities of caring, but only one third of parents report that this actually happens. In other…
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The Albany Mums protest - with their families
08th March 2010, 7:12am |
At the weekend I went to the demonstration in London against the destruction by King’s College Hospital of the Albany Midwives, a beacon of family and community based midwifery. I even spoke at the demo from the top of a double decker bus in front of the Department of Health…
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Community based “New Family Markets” instead of NHS antenatal education?
16th December 2009, 9:55pm |
Antenatal education is in trouble. The latest review of the evidence by the Department of Health is discouraging – put simply, there is little evidence that antenatal education works very well. This may be because it has always been given a low priority by the NHS – half-hearted evaluations of…
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Should men be at the birth of babies? What I said in the debate with Michel Odent.
27th November 2009, 8:32am |
I’m back - book written! Yesterday, at the invitation of the Royal College of Midwives, I debated with the famous French obstetrician, Michel Odent, “should men be at the birth of babies?” The debate was discussed in the national papers, on the BBC TV news (twice), on radio stations (four…
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Nick Clegg gives speech on family and fatherhood
27th July 2009, 9:19am |
Nick Clegg, leader of the Liberal Democrats, gave a speech on the family on 8 July at Relate. He said that it was important to support family relationships of all kinds and in all family formations. He talked about the need at the present time to support relationships under stress…
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