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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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
A report commissioned by the finance group Aviva among 20,000 families has found that almost 33% of all couples bringing up children have a child from an earlier relationship in their family. This escalation in the number of step families means … [Read more...]
From the University of Rochester website: Discussing five movies about relationships over a month could cut the three-year divorce rate for newlyweds in half, researchers report. The study, involving 174 couples, is the first long-term … [Read more...]
2M CHILDREN ‘NOW LIVE IN STEP-PARENT FAMILY’ A report commissioned by the finance group Aviva among 20,000 families has found that almost 33% of all couples bringing up children have a child from an earlier relationship in their family. This … [Read more...]
Unmarried couples are four times more likely to separate than their married counterparts, a new study has revealed (writes Toby Hayward-Butcher). The Marriage Foundation has published the results of a national panel survey of 40,000 households, … [Read more...]
Figures collated by the Marriage Foundation have shown that latest national population statistics show that babies born in 2012 are likely to suffer higher rates of family breakdown than any previous generation. The Foundation has projected that … [Read more...]
“It is not parental divorce or separation per se which increases the risk of later inflammation... it is other social disadvantages, such as how well the child does in education, which are triggered by having experienced parental divorce which are … [Read more...]