Archive for category Family, Marriage and the Culture
Boundaries in teen relationships
Posted by Anastasia de Waal in Education, Family, Marriage and the Culture on 26/09/2011
The Coalition Government is seeking to address violent teenage relationships with a new advertising campaign. Meanwhile, new light has been shed on the prevalence of such violence. In view of this new information, are we responding to the problem satisfactorily, asks Therese Wallin.
Where the strings attach
Posted by Anastasia de Waal in Family, Marriage and the Culture on 24/06/2011
The Prime Minister is a well-known advocate of family life: a conviction he has now employed to encourage the British public to stigmatise non-present fathers, writes Therese Wallin.
Free for all
Posted by David Merlin-Jones in Economics, Family, Marriage and the Culture, Politics, Race and Equality, Social Cohesion on 06/04/2011
The mudslinging has started, the rhetoric is now in full flow and the cries of hypocrisy have begun to get louder. Unpaid internships. What, oh what, are we to do? On the one hand, a valuable exercise and CV trophy, on the other, a period of being a wage-slave without even the wage. As Nick Clegg claims, are we undermining social mobility by offering unpaid internships? Probably not.
Equally Wrong
Posted by Nick Cowen in Economics, Family, Marriage and the Culture, Political Correctness on 01/02/2011
In October last year, the Equality and Human Rights Commission suggested that progress to close the gender pay gap was grinding to a halt. That December, the Office of National Statistics inconveniently noted ‘the biggest fall in the gender pay gap since the measure was first produced using the ASHE methodology in 1997’. This renders the EHRC’s predictions as reliable as the Met office’s in recent years. Curiously, this tremendous news has yet to penetrate very far into the consciousness of those calling for more Government intervention and legislation to close the gap. Could it be that our relatively flexible labour markets are already doing a great job at breaking down barriers to employment, at the very least for those women who want and choose to engage in full time work?
All I want for Christmas is an escape route, an ice-pick and a moisturizing lip balm
Posted by Annaliese Briggs in Environment, Family, Marriage and the Culture, Health on 17/12/2010
Bing Crosby may have dreamt of a white Christmas; but, as festivities approach a climax, bringing with it a band of rain, sleet and snow, the reality of spending another year cooped up at home like a turkey in a battery farm rapidly moves down the list of seasonal aspirations.
Risk, not past guilt, should guide adoption procedures
Posted by Nick Cowen in Civil Liberty, Crime, Family, Marriage and the Culture on 01/12/2010
Indiscriminate blanket bans on looking after children have once again come under fire. A new report warns that the automatic bars against sex offenders adopting children could breach ECHR rights. Whilst the scheme purports to make children safer, it in fact stifles the paramountcy of children’s interests and panders to a blind aura of ‘moral panic’ that clouds such debates, writes Carolina Bracken.
