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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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Thoughts on the future of gender equality (1)
05th September 2009, 1:40pm |
Over the next few weeks I will reflect on the future of the campaign to achieve equal pay for men and women and I want to relate this directly to the needs of children. Unequal pay is not good for children - it restricts how their parents can look after…
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I love the book, The Sixty Minute Father, by Rob Parsons!
07th August 2009, 8:13am |
“What really upsets me are those fathers who have chosen not to be with their children.” Janice, aged 17, who lost her father when she was 8. Hodder is publishing a new edition of The Sixty Minute Father by Rob Parsons, making this the longest lasting book on fatherhood -…
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Why does sharing of the care of infants create feelings of guilt and inadequacy for mums and dads?
03rd August 2009, 7:30am |
Is the key challenge of sharing the care of children in fact stepping out of one’s culturally determined earning or caring role rather than the challenges of the new role? The Daily Mail is still at it, with yet more excellent articles about motherhood, fatherhood and family life (see my…
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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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We need time to see our children growing up
05th July 2009, 9:31am |
I recently blogged about the need to find the space and time simply to contemplate the series of precious and never-returning moments of our children growing up. Like this morning being chased around the kitchen by my daughter brandishing a vacuum cleaner. This is a favourite poem of mine, which…
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