Father’s essential role in upbringing confirmed
Fathers are often missing from family life and this puts their children at a considerable disadvantage, as research over the last 20 years shows. A Swedish team reviewed 24 published…
Where did universities come from?
When a group of students and professors refused to hear the pope speak at their Roman university they were denying their own tradition. The conventional view nowadays regarding faith and…
Police fear internet cult inspires teen suicides
Detectives fear a bizarre suicide craze is sweeping through teenagers in a small town fueled by chat on social networking sites after seven friends took their own lives. As well…
All screens, all the time for British kids
A generation of multi-tasking British children are living their daily lives — including eating and falling asleep — to the accompaniment of television, according to a survey of youngsters’ media…
Kenya: Post-Election Violence Displaces Over 100,000 Children
Kenya’s bishops appealed to their countrymen to stop the "senseless killing of our brothers and sisters" and asked for an investigation into the December 27 elections that sparked violence. In…
Huge turnout in Madrid affirms the family
Recognizing and fostering "the marvellous reality of the indissoluble marriage between man and woman", is "one of the greatest services which can be rendered nowadays to the common good and…
Community-based child-care providers
A colorful array of childcare and preschool options blossomed in the 1970s as the feminist movement spurred mothers into careers and community organizations nurtured new programs. Now a small circle…
Best Christmas gift: Time with MUM AND DAD!
Parents should spend more time baking, dressing up and making decorations with their children if they want them to have a truly memorable Christmas. They should spend less time tracking…
Moscow to have ‘Year of the Family’ in 2008
The government of the Russian has announced a "Year of the Family in Moscow" to run through 2008. The program, which aims to help any family in the city, includes…
Live-in boyfriends raise risk of Child Abuse
Growing up in a home without both natural parents is a well-known risk for a child’s welfare and cases of severe child abuse tend to confirm this, as a recent…
Marriage deserves more because it gives more
The continued provision of preferential support for parents and children over other types of unions is vital for society. The ongoing debate in Australia over the access of same-sex couples…
MARRIAGE HEALTHIER FOR ALL THE FAMILY THAN COHABITATION
Marriage is the healthiest option despite the fact that marriage is losing ground to cohabitation a new research from Britain confirms. Figures from the Office of National Statistics show this…