News Archive
Children in crisis, Williams warns
Monday 18. of September 2006By: Yahoo News
The Archbishop of Canterbury has warned family separations and commercial pressures are causing a crisis in modern childhood.
Dr Rowan Williams said a new generation of young parents fail to offer the right example to their...
Pressures making teenage life a misery, warns charity
Tuesday 19. of September 2006By: The Guardian
Britain's teenagers are afflicted by an epidemic of depression and self-harm, a leading children's charity warned yesterday at the start of a two-year inquiry into whether the pressures of modern living are sullying the...
Boys-only education 'leads to divorce'
Friday 22. of September 2006By: The Independent
Men who went to single-sex schools are more likely to be divorced by their early forties, according to research published yesterday.
Testing blamed for rise in primary school truancy
Friday 22. of September 2006By: The Independent
Truancy rates have soared to a record level, government figures show. A total of 1,399,197 pupils, one in five of all state school children, skipped lessons last year a rise of 433,797 in 10 years.
Breast milk is key weapon in fight to lower Africa's child mortality rate
Friday 22. of September 2006By: The Independent
The lives of a million babies could be saved every year by the simplest and most natural remedy of them all - breast-feeding.
Official: now it's good to push your kids to excel
Sunday 08. of October 2006By: The Observer
New research dismisses fears that children encouraged to take extra classes feel stressed and says they do better at school and reap benefits in later life.
The Invention of Childhood
Wednesday 11. of October 2006By: BBC Radio 4 Series
Ideas about the nature of childhood and about how best to bring up a child have changed in significant ways over time. It’s true that at any one point in time we can find people disagreeing about these issues, but in most periods...