Parenting news: archive
Times Online marriage and sex survey
Sunday Times, 25 May 2008
Darling, that was wonderful: British couples reveal the quantity of sex after parenthood may be down but the quality is up.
A desperate generation driven to drink
Sunday Times, 25 May 2008
Our boozing culture is largely an underclass one and it's time we both acknowledged the problem and stepped in to help. By India Knight.
Universities skew admissions to aid poor pupils
Sunday Times, 25 May 2008
Britain's leading universities have overhauled their admissions procedures in an attempt to socially engineer their intake by favouring students with lower exam grades if they come from poor families.
Jamie Oliver calls for sex ban to get men cooking
Sunday Times, 25 May 2008
The chef believes that women should abstain from sex with their husbands or boyfriends to punish them if they refuse to cook.
Schools ‘must monitor gang tags, clothing and Facebook’
The Times (London), 23 May 2008
School staff should trawl social networking sites such as Facebook and Bebo to identify whether their pupils are gang members, according to advice in a government report.
Chat room youth and a good deed that went bad
The Times (London), 23 May 2008
A teenager was accused of kidnap after trying to help a girl who said on an internet chatroom that she was being abused.
Alarm over child drinkers with liver disease
The Times (London), 23 May 2008
Shops could face new legal curbs on the sale of cut-price alcohol to control under-age and binge drinking.
Price fixing won’t fix the problem
The Times (London), 23 May 2008
There are deeper reasons than cost for why young people are drinking to nihilistic excess. By Melanie McDonagh.
‘How could a girl starve in 21st-century UK?’
The Times (London), 23 May 2008
Charities and politicians call for full inquiry into Khyra Ishaq’s death while her five siblings are placed in foster care.
Parents’ appeals rise over primary places
The Times (London), 23 May 2008
The number of admissions appeals from parents whose children were refused places at their preferred primary schools rose by 20 per cent last year amid fierce competition.
Pre-school literacy targets: ‘too ambitious’
The Times (London), 22 May 2008
Experts on government policy for the under-5s are demanding radical changes to literacy targets for pre-school children.
Censors go online to clean up digital videos
The Times (London), 22 May 2008
The hitherto lawless world of online entertainment has began to adopt the same ratings system that governs British cinemas.
Neglect charges after child dies
The Times (London), 22 May 2008
A man and a woman have been charged with neglect after the death of a 7-year-old girl that has shocked neighbours.
Pupils may face urine test
The Times (London), 22 May 2008
Report says that students may need to face tests as cognition-enhancing drugs become more widely used.
Jersey children were dismembered and burnt
The Times (London), 22 May 2008
Police reveal that the number of people suspected of involvement in child abuse in former home has increased from 40 to 70.
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