Family
How to predict the unpredictable: 5 most common reasons for divorce
According to recent ONS figures, 2 in 5 marriages end in divorce, and roughly half of these occur in the first 10 years of marriage. Nearly 2/3 of divorces were petitioned by the wife, with unreasonable behaviour as the top reason cited for wanting a divorce. Interestingly, the law in England and Wales is such that it requires one party to assume blame for the breakdown of the relationship.Divorcing couples must choose from the following grounds for divorce:unreasonable behaviour, adultery, desertion,...
Single family rooms that enable parents to stay with premature babies slash serious infections
They also boost breastfeeding rates
Today is the loneliest day of the year for parents
Tuesday November 27 is the loneliest day of the year for parents – with new mums hit the hardest, according to research. A miserable mix of dark nights, bad weather and struggling to budget for Christmas are the most common triggers. But waiting for payday and staying in to save money for the festive season also leaves many parents feeling more isolated than at any other point in the year. Almost three quarters of mums pinpointed November 27 as the...
We adopted and it changed our lives for the better
Anna and Jack adopted their daughters Olivia and Emily through Coram in 2013. Here Anna shares the joys and challenges of the family’s adoption journey. Adoption is something we first started to properly consider after unsuccessful IVF treatment. We’d been seeing a counsellor at that time due to everything we’d been through and they gave us some information to help us if we did decide to pursue that route. After our initial phone call to Coram we went along to...
One family’s journey to teacher their deaf daughter to speak & listen
When Susan Rosenthal and her husband James' daughter Aimee’s was diagnosed deaf the family’s journey began to teach her to speak and listen, this is their story... When our baby daughter Aimee failed her newborn hearing screening test and we thought nothing of it. It was only at the follow up appointment six weeks later when we learned that she had a bilateral moderate to severe hearing loss that we felt that our word had crumbled. Since Aimee was such a...
A 50-year-old grandmother has become Britain’s oldest mother of quads
Grandmother Tracey Britten, 50, is pregnant with three girls and one boy
Amazing Halloween makeup ideas
Check out these amazing Halloween makeup ideas.
People really can die of a broken heart, here’s why
A study of almost 100 recently widowed people found those taking it worst had dramatic spikes in blood chemicals linked to the killer condition
Half of infants scared of doctor because of ‘needle phobia’ which they pick up from anxious parents
One in 25 vaccinations have even had to be postponed because of this fear