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The Death of Intimacy
Sunday's Observer had a quite remarkable account of a 29-year-old woman's epiphany about the true nature of sexual liberation, which reveals why the Government's proposals to make sex and relationships education compulsory in all England's schools are right - in as far as they go. Indeed her "'nearing-thirty'...
John Hayward Posted: 4 November 2008 1 comment
Keywords: Education, Lifestyle Issues, Sex & Families,
Britain Needs a New Sexual Revolution?
Last night I opened the opposition for the Cambridge Union Society's freshers' debate, which called for a new sexual revolution.It proved a rather confused affair in that, despite clear differences in the worldviews of the speakers on both sides of the debate, there was considerable overlap in some of...
John Hayward Posted: 10 October 2008 2 comments
Keywords: Sex & Families,
The Next Generation
"Economic and academic concerns trump relational ones, despite the latter's crucial role in child, and later adult's, well-being. Children's policy misses the importance of relationships and political thinking in general misses the relevance of high levels of relational stress and relational poverty...
John Hayward Posted: 11 September 2008 No comments
Keywords: Education, Government & Foreign Affairs, Sex & Families,
Abortion Addicts
Today's annual abortion statistics for England and Wales from the Department of Health make for dismal reading:The total number of abortions in 2007 rose by 2.5% to an all time high of 198,499, 35% of which were carried out using the "abortion pill".Abortions among girls aged under 16 rose by 10%.In...
John Hayward Posted: 19 June 2008 3 comments
Keywords: Health, Lifestyle Issues, Sex & Families,
It Pays to Invest
"You can have all the tax breaks in the world, all the flexible working you can ask for and the cheapest and most reliable childcare at your doorstep but if the warmth, the understanding and the love within a relationship and within a family is eroding away, then this means very little."To me this sounds...
John Hayward Posted: 12 June 2008 2 comments
Keywords: Sex & Families,
End to 'Fatherless' Children?
The Government is amazingly inconsistent. One month it condemns a whole class of children to fatherlessness. The next it reveals, "Change to birth laws means an end to 'fatherless' children" (today's Times). In future, all fathers will be required to sign their baby's birth certificate under a change...
John Hayward Posted: 3 June 2008 1 comment
Keywords: Sex & Families,
Discrimination Against Christians
"Doctors and nurses can't choose who they treat and nor should a registrar be allowed to discriminate."So asserted the chief executive of the gay rights group Stonewall in yesterday's Times, concerning the civil registrar who is facing dismissal after refusing to undertake civil partnership duties. His...
John Hayward Posted: 22 May 2008 1 comment
Keywords: Government & Foreign Affairs, Sex & Families,
In Favour of Cohabitation
'The gay rights group Stonewall today accused a group of Conservative backbenchers of trying to wreck the civil partnership bill by tabling an amendment giving siblings who live together the same rights as gay couples. Tory MPs Gerald Howarth, Christopher Chope and Edward Leigh say they want to make...
John Hayward Posted: 1 May 2008 No comments
Keywords: Sex & Families,
'Catastrophic Meltdown' in Families
"Almost all of society's social ills can be traced directly to the collapse of the family life."A senior family court judge warned at the weekend of a "cancerous" increase in broken families that poses "as big a threat to the future of our society as terrorism, street crime or...
John Hayward Posted: 7 April 2008 No comments
Keywords: Sex & Families,
Put Families First!
"The long term stability of our society depends on our ability to resolve the crisis within the family. The consequences of family disintegration for the next generation can be seen already in the bitterness and alienation of those brought up with little care from parents and relatives. Violence...
John Hayward Posted: 3 April 2008 2 comments
Keywords: Sex & Families,
Jamie on 21 May 2013
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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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