A new survey of people living estranged from a parent, sibling or adult child has found many feel judged or blamed for their family breakdown.
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Our panel discusses the benefits of gathering for an annual holiday meal. Traditions and rituals give us a sense of identity and closeness with those we love – and come with mental and physical health benefits too.
The severing of what many consider an everlasting bond is more common than you’d think.
A new study finds that men who earn most of the dough are willing to give it up for more time at home.
When funding comes sporadically with strings attached, how can vital services keep running?
By limiting financial support to smaller families, the government is doing its best to stop undesirables from reproducing.
After months of speculation, we now know how the Chancellor plans to save £12bn from the welfare budget.
A bloc of conservative countries is mounting a new push to enshrine “family values” in the UN’s Human Rights Council. What they really want is rather more sinister.
In a $5 billion industry, there’s no longer a level playing field.
Small business and families top the list of winners, while tax avoiders and rich retirees stand to lose.
Lost in the political debate about subsidising child care is the fact that universal free preschool care has been abandoned as a goal of good social policy.
Making the case for subsidising childcare is not as simple as it might seem, and the government’s new childcare package may not pay for itself.
Growing up in a one parent family doesn’t matter, as long as it’s a stable one.
The British Christmas that Charles Dickens serves up to us is rich in food and warmth, two things that in his day were often thinly stretched throughout the year in many homes. These days, for most of…
Britain is quickly turning into a nation characterised by an obscene and unsustainable wealth gap, according to a new report on social mobility. Yet behind the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission’s…
Whether we’re reading about family studies research in Women’s Day , Scientific American or the Journal of GLBT Family Studies, most of us look for evidence that will help us understand where we sit along…
David Cameron has pledged to put families at the heart of his government with a focus on policies that help those most in need. But his rhetoric is rank hypocrisy. While the prime minister claims to put…
Children who grew up with a family member in jail are at risk for poor health even as adults, an American study shows. From…
Since the 1970s, family life in the UK has changed dramatically. Increases in relationship breakdown, remarriage and repartnering have seen us move away from the traditional, two-parent nuclear family…
American families are taking much more divergent paths, according to a new study from the Ohio State University. Based on…
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