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Immigration, Population Growth and Housing
Yesterday's Social Trends 2009 report had a fascinating table showing the relative impact of natural change (that is, the difference between births and deaths) and immigration on population growth over the last few decades.The report noted, 'During the 1980s the flow of migrants into the UK changed to...
John Hayward Posted: 16 April 2009 1 comment
Keywords: Government & Foreign Affairs, Sex & Families,
More people living alone or with parents
'The proportion of people living alone doubled between 1971 and 2001, to 12 per cent, and remained the same in 2008. Between 1971 and 2008 the proportion of lone parent households increased almost threefold to 11 per cent ... 1.8 million (29 per cent) men and 1.1 million (18 per cent) women aged 20 to...
John Hayward Posted: 15 April 2009 No comments
Keywords: Lifestyle Issues, Sex & Families,
Paying For Sex
"I wouldn't expect her to tell the truth because it isn't a trade where the truth is always there. They're acting anonymously; I'm acting anonymously, because there is something very wrong in what we are doing. So, not telling the truth is only part of the same story." There was a very telling...
John Hayward Posted: 8 April 2009 1 comment
Keywords: Lifestyle Issues, Sex & Families,
Abortion Advice Ads
The BBC phoned me today asking, among other things, what I thought of today's proposals for pregnancy advisory services, possibly including abortion information, to be advertised on TV and radio for the first time.The head of a charity that offers sexual health advice and services to young people told...
John Hayward Posted: 26 March 2009 3 comments
Keywords: Education, Health, Lifestyle Issues, Sex & Families, Worldviews & Culture,
How Best To Support Grandparents
A charity is today calling for grandparents in work to be given two weeks 'granny leave' to help care for new-born grandchildren and parents to be paid childcare tax credit if grandparents provide childcare while the parents go to work. It is certainly the case that current policies, whereby child care...
John Hayward Posted: 25 March 2009 1 comment
Keywords: Finance & the Economy, Government & Foreign Affairs, Sex & Families,
Passive Sex
The Chief Medical Officer for England, Sir Liam Donaldson says we need to recognise the concept of what he has called 'passive drinking' the devastating damage done to innocent parties from others' boozing - including harm to the unborn fetus, acts of drunken violence, vandalism, sexual assault and child...
John Hayward Posted: 16 March 2009 No comments
Keywords: Crime & Justice, Health, Sex & Families,
Why does UK have so many teenage mums?
Yesterday's papers told us about a 17-year-old, who gave birth to her first child at the age of 15, who is now expecting triplets. The girl, Sian Robbins admits, 'I didn’t really want a baby so it was a shock but we weren’t using contraception.'Today we learn that a 13-year-old boy, Alfie...
John Hayward Posted: 13 February 2009 No comments
Keywords: Sex & Families,
Marriage: Over-taxed and under-valued
This year’s British Social Attitudes report revealed that just 38 per cent of young adults think marriage is the best kind of relationship (compared with 84 per cent of over-65s who think so) and only 22 per cent think married couples make better parents than unmarried ones. This begs a simple...
John Hayward Posted: 11 February 2009 1 comment
Keywords: Finance & the Economy, Sex & Families,
Bailouts Gone Wild
Joe Francis, creator of the pornographic Girls Gone Wild video series, and Larry Flynt, founder of the sexually explicit Hustler magazine, are apparently to ask Congress for a $5 billion bailout, claiming that, with XXX DVD sales down by 22 per cent, the pornography industry is in need of support during...
John Hayward Posted: 8 January 2009 2 comments
Keywords: Finance & the Economy, Sex & Families,
Mixed Signals on Trafficking
Yesterday the Home Secretary revealed new prostitution laws that would mean a man who pays for sex with a woman who has been trafficked or is under the control of a pimp could face a charge of rape and up to life in prison.Now, according to the Metropolitan police, 70 per cent of the 88,000 women involved...
John Hayward Posted: 20 November 2008 1 comment
Keywords: Government & Foreign Affairs, Sex & Families,
Jamie on 21 May 2013
This is heartbreaking. Families should not be torn apart like this. Thank you for sharing this important...
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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