Children

This year of madness: Former DJ Andy Kershaw reveals his pain at the bitter struggle to see his...

dailymail.co.uk     8 hrs ago   3 related          

Sitting in a pub garden, drinking pints of bitter and smoking heavily, the former BBC radio presenter Andy Kershaw shows little physical evidence of the past few harrowing months. For the record: Former DJ Andy Kershaw...                    

Does the glass ceiling still exist? New equality figures reveal women are again losing out to men...

dailymail.co.uk     47 mins ago   14 related          

The so-called glass ceiling has become a 'reinforced concrete' one, with the number of women employed in senior positions falling over the past year, according to a new study reported in the Mail yesterday. She says: To...                    

Blue Peter faces the axe warns former presenter Biddy Baxter

telegraph.co.uk     1 hr ago   1 related          

Biddy Baxter, the former editor of Blue Peter, has claimed that the BBC is attempting to kill off the much-loved children's programme. She has accused producers of abandoning the core formula of the long-running show,...                    

Grown-up offspring cost parents £21,500

guardian.co.uk     8 hrs ago   1 related          

Parents know their children cost a fortune to bring up, but it seems the financial commitment lasts well past young adulthood. Not only are mothers and fathers contributing towards the cost of going to university, the...                    

Letters: A question of privilege

guardian.co.uk     8 hrs ago          

Please don't rush to judge all the middle-class parents who send their kids to private schools by the same harsh yardstick (I just want the best for my kids, G2, September 3). Name and address supplied My son attends the...                    

A Blessed Child, by Linn Ullmann, trans. Sarah Death

independent.co.uk     8 hrs ago          

For any daughter of a creative titan, a career in the arts means that an extra peak will rise over and above the usual mountains that she has to climb. In Linn Ullmann's case, two further summits loomed: her father was...                    

Girls on top: How Britain's female high-flyers beat the odds

independent.co.uk     8 hrs ago          

This week it was revealed that the number of women in senior jobs is falling. Mary Portas, retail consultant and TV presenter I don't care what anybody says, the responsibility and care of children falls to women, and you,...                    

Unmarried woman wins childcare pay-out

scotsman.com     7 hrs ago          

Published Date: 05 September 2008 THE first "palimony" award in Scotland under legislation that gives greater rights to unmarried couples has been made to a woman who will receive £14,460 from her former partner. The...                    

Parents' sensitivity blamed for failure to detect child abuse

independent.co.uk     8 hrs ago          

By Jeremy Laurance, Health Editor Doctors working in the field of child abuse are being subjected to a barrage of complaints from parents, leading to a fall in the detection of those at risk, experts allege today. The...                    

Scared of "Big School".

timesonline.typepad.com     10 hrs ago          

Not Dora. She went off for her first day at junior school with a cheery, "It will be nerve-wracking, but exciting also." No - me. I've been used to being top-dog at the Infants school. We were the Big Parents - looking...                    

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