The consent principle applies now – and we should beware of the potential effects on children of allowing no adequate period for reflection.
The Chancellor should commit to a Family Services Transformation Fund of £100 million over four years to help relationship support and post-separation support.
Requiring divorcing couples to assign blame often increases the acrimony, and the harm, of the process.
The modern family is changing, and the law should change with it. In any event, the traditional view of marriage has already been overhauled by the Conservatives.
The final piece in our five-part series on ConHome on a new Manifesto to Strengthen Families, which was launched in Parliament this week.
When we first increased, and then doubled, this budget, it improved many people’s lives. Reversing that would be a retrograde step.
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The Government is not only for the JAMs (Just About Managing), but now also apparently for the NAAMs (Not At All Managing).
There is plenty of evidence that married couples provide children with a major head-start in life, but this privilege is increasingly confined to the wealthy.
UK families earning 50-75 per cent of the average wage face the highest effective marginal tax rates of any OECD country.
A Government which wants to ‘make Britain a country that works for everyone’ cannot allocate £4 billion of £6 billion to those in the top half of the income distribution.
This is the right Minister in the right department. And though his room for manoeuvre is limited, he has a chance to make an impact on families policy.
Half of all family breakdown now takes place among unmarried parents either during pregnancy or before their child’s second birthday.
Her novels are an insight into the financial and social realities of Georgian and Regency England, and how women navigated them.