Single Parenting

Why Is UK Family Breakdown Rate So High?

PA | Posted 29.12.2012 | UK

The UK has one of the highest rates of family breakdown in the Western world with just two thirds of children living with both parents, according to r...

Parenting Teenagers: Making Mistakes

Elena Barbiero | Posted 05.11.2012 | UK Lifestyle
Elena Barbiero

The teenage years, a little like the 'terrible twos', are a stepping stone in the individual's development: from baby to toddler, and from child to young adult. They each indicate the transition from one important stage to a very different one: but why is it often so challenging to deal with teenagers?

David Cameron: 'Children Should be Seen and Not Heard

Shan Ellis | Posted 03.09.2012 | UK Politics
Shan Ellis

Last week David Cameron unveiled his master plan to cut 10 billion from the Welfare budget by 2016. How? By forcing the under 25's to seek refuge with their parents until they turn 25.

A Strange Gift

Suzy Miller | Posted 29.06.2012 | UK Lifestyle
Suzy Miller

It's a January morning in 2003 and I can't bring myself to take the kids to school. What will I say when someone asks me "How are you?" The answer, yo...

Get Real, Gwyneth: Why Working Mums Don't Need Any More Guilt, Thanks

Michelle Beckett | Posted 06.04.2012 | UK Lifestyle
Michelle Beckett

Thanks Gwyneth. I was having a bad day ANYWAY, until you made me feel even worse. Guilt rears its ugly head enough for us full time working mums, without you wading in to the fray telling us we need to "compromise" to be a mother and run a successful family.

No Riots for this Single Parent's Kid

Joanna Papageorgiou | Posted 15.10.2011 | UK Politics
Joanna Papageorgiou

David Lammy will be more successful in reducing rioting in the future if he brings to task the government rather than point his finger at us single parents.