Penelope Leach’s book is making a big impact as THE book that all separating parents must read to ensure they are meeting their children’s needs. In this article, Mail on Sunday writer Catherine O’Brien considers the importance of its messages on … [Read more...]
Blog: Latest research on care needs of the very young
MPG director Penelope Leach has been surveying the very latest research about the relationship between primary care-givers and very young children. She writes: The MPG book Family Breakdown was written to get separating parents, and all the other … [Read more...]
Blog: ‘Parents must think hard about shared parenting arrangements.’
What is the best advice to parents about putting their children's interests first when they go to see a lawyer after separating? Here, Jane McDonagh, family law partner of the leading legal firm Simons Muirhead and Burton, gives some practical … [Read more...]
MPG BOOK HITS no1 IN AMAZON CHART!
Penelope Leach has hosted a web chat about her new book on hugely popular Mumsnet site here and here. Hear Penelope Leach talking about her new book on Jeremy Vine (Radio 2) here and on Woman's Hour (Radio 4) here. Family Breakdown: Helping … [Read more...]
BOOK ‘SAYS THAT CHILDREN WITH CLOSE FATHER RELATIONSHIPS DO BETTER’
Family Breakdown has been written because it’s a grim fact of modern Britain that almost half of children will suffer the separation of their parents by the time they are 16. More than 12,000 couples with children now decide to live apart every … [Read more...]
BOOK “DOES NOT BAN OVERNIGHTS WITH DAD”
MPG director Penelope Leach clarifies the core messages of her book to rectify serious distortions in the media. She says: "Although my new book is called Family Breakdown: Helping Children Hang on to Both Their Parents, by the time it was … [Read more...]
Early-life family discord or abuse ‘alters the brains of victims’
The effect of major stress in childhood, caused by severe neglect or maltreatment such as persistent child abuse or sexual abuse, affects the brain of the adult victim; the resulting psychopathologies have been well-documented. That type of major … [Read more...]
Infants ‘institutionalised’ by overexposure to childcare’
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/10749840/Infants-institutionalised-by-overexposure-to-childcare.html … [Read more...]
Father’s brains ‘change when they are primary care-givers’
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/gay-fathers-brains-change-when-they-are-the-primary-caregiver-9442757.html … [Read more...]
MPG: OUR PLEDGE FOR CHILDREN
MPG is using the insight afforded by attachment science to achieve further change in policies towards families and especially children. At the heart of our efforts is a children’s pledge. Problems among young people have sadly risen to epidemic … [Read more...]
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