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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Two Wishes
Transforming family separation & divorce
Author: TW
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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Kids in care: not actually home?
Big government systems can blindly break up small family systems. Sometimes – like Trump at the Mexico border and lockdown
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Uniting families divided by the past
Social media helped two brothers reunite 74 years after partition was imposed between India and Pakistan. Uniting families divided by
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Top UK judge: A better way than family courts
The UK’s top family court judge, Sir Andrew MacFarlane, has a simple but radical plan: to promote better ‘upstream’ help
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We can do without combative family contests
Family lawyers call the first Monday of January ‘Divorce Day’ as divorce enquiries boom. Family lawyer, Caroline Elliot, says “Divorce Day
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