Parenting news: archive

Background checks have their place
The Times, 28 March 2008
Letters: We can't afford to take risks where vulnerable people are involved.

Take away the junk or we take away your kids
spiked, 27 March 2008
Removing obese children from their family homes won’t make them any healthier, but it will undermine parental rights and wreck families. By Basham and Luik.

Yes! Parenting classes for kids
The Times (London), 19 March 2008
It makes perfect sense in today's world to teach young children to be good mummies and daddies. Comment by Alice Miles.

Family at heart of Conservative policy, says Cameron
The Guardian, 15 March 2008
David Cameron today put the family at the centre of Conservative party policy as he set out his vision for solving the nation's social problems for the long term.

Women ‘unprepared for childbirth’
BBC News, 14 March 2008
Many women are going into labour vastly underestimating how painful it can be and overly optimistic that they will be able to manage without drugs, a study suggests.

Volunteering tsar points to hindrance from red tape
Guardian, 10 March 2008
Unnecessary child protection checks and other bureaucratic barriers are wasting the potential of volunteers in public services, Gordon Brown's volunteering tsar, Lady Neuberger, will say today.

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