Parenting news: archive
Children abandon languages under new GCSE rules
The Times (London), 6 July 2009
The withdrawal of the requirement for all GCSE candidates to take a foreign language in 2003 has damaged take-up, study finds.
Dinner lady faces sack for telling parents about attack on daughter
The Times (London), 6 July 2009
A dinner lady is facing the sack for breaching “pupil confidentiality” after she blew the whistle on school bullies.
Hi mum, I’m home (again)
Sunday Times, 5 July 2009
Grown-up children are increasingly returning to live with their parents. Does it bring domestic bliss or family strife?
For better, for worse. In pre-nup and in wealth
Sunday Times, 5 July 2009
Heiress Katrin Radmacher made legal history when a court backed her prenuptial deal. She discusses details with the Sunday Times.
Mother fights for embryos ‘on death row’
Sunday Times, 5 July 2009
A mother who faces losing 11 frozen embryos is leading a campaign on behalf of dozens of women to change rules that would prevent them having more children.
Indulge your selfishness. Go and help someone
The Times (London), 4 July 2009
Even hard-nosed City types are discovering the benefits of volunteering. So how can we harness the itch to be altruistic? By Janice Turner.
School places code may be toughened
The Times (London), 4 July 2009
Urgent investigation into rules aimed at preventing lying parents from flouting admissions system after court case is abandoned.
Judges back pre-nuptial agreements as heiress wins battle against husband
The Times (London), 3 July 2009
Senior judges rewrote the divorce laws yesterday to give resounding backing to prenuptial contracts and bring England into line with the rest of Europe.
The time is right for lunching in the street
The Times (London), 3 July 2009
People today don't chat to their neighbours - so organisers of the Big Lunch have planned a national street party.
Will we fight our genetic urges? Slim chance
The Times (London), 2 July 2009
Humanity is hardwired to eat too much and produce too many babies. We must fight our biology if we are to survive. By Helen Rumbelow.
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