Give families “green, not harmful, footprints”
If we don’t want families to go to war, then we shouldn’t offer them an adversarial justice system. We should
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Two Wishes
Transforming family separation & divorce
Author: TW
Guns, Germs & Divorce: Treating social ills as health issues
Another US school gun massacre sets off the usual debate as if this is just a political or criminal justice
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Talking about suicide
The Bristol Grandparents Support Group is one of 100s and 100s of voluntary organisations who support family members faced with
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Making better headlines about family separation
Catherine Baksi writes in The Times that there’s “Room for improvement on divorce”. Journalists and editors are turning to more
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War story headline: “We worked as one family”
Channel 4 News followed one family’s long escape from Odesa to reunite in England. When asked what war stories he
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Separating families need “support, not a boxing ring”
23 Mar, 2022: Separating families need “support, not a boxing ring,” says the Family Solutions Group, a group of family
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Cut off from family, they “gave up and died”
The “big scandal” of Covid was that some isolated care home residents “gave up and died” because they were unable
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27,000 UK children need not be in care
In her book “Behind Closed Doors” (2022), journalist Polly Curtis reports on her extensive investigation of children in the UK
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The most powerful mental health intervention that we know
“The parent-child connection is the most powerful mental health intervention known to mankind.” That’s what trauma-specialist and best-selling author, Dr
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Find more to unite than divide us
Sharing a beer isn’t usually enough to resolve conflict. Every day of every life brings conflict for us to work
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Mum, Dad can you hear me?
Despina Mavridou, a family mediator in Greece, wrote her book “Mum, Dad can you hear me?” for two reasons. First,
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