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New Sex Education Plans
The Department for Children, Schools and Families has today announced its response to the Teenage Pregnancy Independent Advisory Group: 'The Government has taken forward all the major recommendations including making sex and relationships education statutory within Personal, Social, Health and Economic...
John Hayward Posted: 11 November 2009 2 comments
Keywords: Education, Sex & Families,
Up to Expectations?
'There's something of the divine in the way we respond to stories and how we're created as people – that we're so driven by relationship that even when we know we're just looking at a bunch of drawings, we still connect emotionally. In making these worlds I feel closer to God through working out...
John Hayward Posted: 13 October 2009 1 comment
Keywords: Sex & Families, Worldviews & Culture,
The Marriage Index
Less than three weeks since a nobel Prize-winning economist urged world leaders to 'avoid GDP fetishism', the international community now has another crucial new indicator in its social toolkit: The Marriage Index. As its authors suggest, this is an important development because 'no social progress is...
John Hayward Posted: 5 October 2009 1 comment
Keywords: Sex & Families,
Tackling Cervical Cancer
Earlier this month it was reported that a teenager, who was adopted by her paternal grandmother at the age of three and who has lived in Florida since her adoptive mother married an American in 2000, was facing possible deportation to England for refusing a vaccination that protects against the sexually...
John Hayward Posted: 30 September 2009 2 comments
Keywords: Health, Sex & Families,
Facebook Registry Office
A good friend now goes by her partner's surname on Facebook and, although they are unmarried, uses the title of Mrs, which made even her sister wonder whether she had missed something. Another acquaintance is having a party to celebrate their tenth anniversary, although they have only been cohabiting...
John Hayward Posted: 15 September 2009 5 comments
Keywords: Lifestyle Issues, Science & Technology, Sex & Families, Worldviews & Culture,
People prefer not to work on Sunday
When I heard that London Midland had cancelled almost all of its services on Sunday because insufficient staff volunteered to work on the Sunday, I was greatly encouraged. More proof that people really want to spend time with their families on Sunday: my colleagues on the Keep Sunday Special team would...
Alan White Posted: 8 September 2009 1 comment
Keywords: Lifestyle Issues, Sex & Families,
Child Porn - Who's Responsible?
A children's charity has today confirmed the worrying extent to which 11-18 year-olds use digital technologies for sexual purposes. You may recall that this is something we warned of a couple of months ago, following our seminar on the impact of sexual imagery on young people, when we noted that everyone...
John Hayward Posted: 4 August 2009 1 comment
Keywords: Sex & Families,
On Bigamy and Divorce
A former porn star (or glamour model, depending on where you read your news) has received a 10-month suspended sentence after admitting four counts of bigamy. Somewhat bizarrely, she is now living in the home of her new boyfriend’s parents. The life of her fifth ‘husband’, who learned...
John Hayward Posted: 29 July 2009 No comments
Keywords: Sex & Families,
Youth Development
Earlier this year I suggested that just as it would be negligent for a parent to teach their child how to operate a car and to hand them the keys without also instructing them in how best to drive the vehicle on the roads, so too we need to help children understand the 'rules of the road' when it comes...
John Hayward Posted: 9 July 2009 3 comments
Keywords: Sex & Families,
Neglect of the Elderly
Police investigating a water leak in Edinburgh this week discovered in a tenement flat the body of a pensioner which may have lain undisturbed for up to five years.One wants to cry out, why did nobody notice? Where were the family and friends of Isabella Purves, who would have been 90 this year? Yet...
John Hayward Posted: 3 July 2009 7 comments
Keywords: Lifestyle Issues, Sex & Families,
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Mike Causey on 17 May 2013
Wow - thanks Ruth, for writing about this. I did not know about the high numbers emigrating, and it really...
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Now that the world is driven wild by gaining wealth without God, this handbook will help even African...