Parenting news: archive
Boys and Girls Alone forces review of children’s employment laws
The Times (London), 14 February 2009
Ministers have ordered a review of child employment laws as a public outcry grows over the Channel 4 series that follows a group aged 8-11 who are left without adult supervision in isolated cottages in Cornwall.
‘Children are victims of our greedy society’
The Times (London), 14 February 2009
Parents are damaging their children by showering them with presents, says Archbishop Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor.
Woman teacher jailed over sex texts to boy
The Times (London), 14 February 2009
Divorced primary school teacher created attractive, blonde online alter ego to encourage 14-year-old boy to commit sex acts.
Alfie Patten: the 13-year-old father
The Times (London), 14 February 2009
Alfie Patten has joined more than 40 boys under the age of 14 who have had children in the past decade, figures show.
Married? You’re in a minority now as wedding rates fall to record low
The Times (London), 13 February 2009
Married couples are in a minority for the first time since records began as fewer people choose to tie the knot, new figures indicate.
Nursery ‘is better than granny for toddlers’
The Times (London), 10 February 2009
Study contradicts Children's Society report that called for grandparents to do more to care for youngsters in the family.
Children must have scrapes says safety charity
The Times (London), 10 February 2009
Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents forms a coalition to encourage young to take risks and learn about hazards.
Two-year-olds ‘should stick to semi-skimmed’
The Times (London), 10 February 2009
The FSA advice is part of a new campaign to help prevent deaths from heart disease in adult life by cutting intake of fat.
Dummy mummies: Are mothers intrinsically boring?
The Times (Alphamummy), 9 February 2009
By Jennifer Howze.
The dummy mummy decade
The Observer, 8 February 2009
Boring, selfish, smug: How a generation of women became obsessed with motherhood. By Rachel Cooke.
How the MMR scare led to return of measles
Sunday Times, 8 February 2009
There were 1,348 cases of measles in the UK last year, according to the Health Protection Agency, up 36% from 2007.
Our children won’t succeed if they don’t read books
Sunday Times, 8 February 2009
As libraries ditch print for computers, Frank Cottrell Boyce argues the move puts the next generation’s future at risk.
Health warning for ‘embryo tourists’
Sunday Times, 8 February 2009
British women are going overseas to circumvent rules on multiple IVF births and some return expecting triplets or quadruplets.
What recession?
Sunday Times, 8 February 2009
Taxpayers get agitated at picking up the tab for the cosy public sector.
Baby P chief talks of suicide
Sunday Times (London), 8 February 2009
Sharon Shoesmith accuses Ed Balls of putting youngsters at risk with his 'breathtakingly reckless' handling of the affair.
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