Harry Benson is the author of “Let’s Stick Together – the relationship book for new parents” and Communications Director of The Marriage Foundation. There is a fundamental flaw at the heart of current attempts at “early intervention”. Until recently, we used to have a terrific NHS post-natal system run by health visitors. Programmes lasted a […]
Harry Benson is the author of “Let’s Stick Together – the relationship book for new parents” and Communications Director of The Marriage Foundation. The great majority of children want to grow up with both their parents. But today 300,000 fifteen year olds (45% of them) in England and Wales are no longer living with both […]
Harry Benson is Communications Director of the Marriage Foundation and author of Let’s Stick Together – the relationship book for new parents. Having spent years teaching thousands of parents how to make their marriages and relationships work well, I am pleased that the Prime Minister wants to improve support for new parents. Much of what […]
Harry Benson is director of Bristol Community Family Trust and author of Let’s Stick Together – the relationship book for new parents. By tradition, 29th February is the one day in every four years when a frustrated lady can pop the question to her hesitant or resistant man! But should she? It would be easy […]
Harry Benson runs Bristol Community Family Trust, a local charity that is pioneering short relationship courses that teach couples how to stay together, and was deputy chair of the family policy group that produced Fractured Families and Breakthrough Britain. Family breakdown now costs £42,000 million every year, according to a new study from the Relationship […]
Harry Benson runs Bristol Community Family Trust, a local charity that is pioneering short relationship courses that teach couples how to stay together, and was deputy chair of the family policy group that produced Fractured Families and Breakthrough Britain. On Thursday I went to the high profile DCSF “relationship summit” introduced by Ed Balls, Beverley […]
Harry Benson runs Bristol Community Family Trust, a local charity that is pioneering short relationship courses that teach couples how to stay together, and was deputy chair of the family policy group that produced Fractured Families and Breakthrough Britain. Marriage may be declining these days but some things never change. Most men still pop the […]
Harry Benson runs Bristol Community Family Trust, a local charity that is pioneering short relationship courses that teach couples how to stay together, and was deputy chair of the family policy group that produced Fractured Families and Breakthrough Britain. Yesterday morning the Today programme greeted me with the welcome news that David Cameron wants to […]
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