Family Relationships Forum launched

I’m pleased to announce that the Family Relationships Forum has now launched - a place to discuss anything and everything related to families: marriage, living together, children, education, finances, teenagers, grandparents, elderly care, social ideas, and resources.

What it needs now is a community, which is where you come in.

I know all too well how difficult starting a forum can be. Anyone who visits it and sees a lot of empty space will often be unwilling to take the time to sign up and start posting. However, we have to start somewhere, so if you’d like to be part of a new, friendly community, head over there now and register your interest.

I’ll be around every day so if nothing else, you can talk to me!

Family Relationships Forum

Leeds family forced to live in car because of appalling temporary accommodation offers

A family of three say that they have been forced to live in their Ford Mondeo car because, since they have were made homeless in May last year, they have been taken off the priority list for Leeds City Council housing because they turned down accommodation they felt was unsuitable.

Ms Prestwich said: “We saw one place at Broadlea Hill in Bramley, where huge gangs of yobs roam the streets.

“While we were there, some yobs were throwing bricks at passing cars, just for fun.

“We were warned not to take the place by neighbours. It was not a safe, we would rather stay in the car,” said Duncan, who finds his hunt for joinery work hampered by lack of a permanent address.

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Diets of children could fatten their parents, study suggests

Whilst many studies of obesity in children focus on how their life is influenced by their parents, a new study reverses this thinking and instead looks at what influence kids may have on their parents:

“Parents with children are likely to be susceptible in their food choices to both the marketing of convenience in food choices as well as indirectly to the marketing directed at their children,” wrote the study’s authors, Dr. Helena Laroche of the University of Iowa and Dr. Matthew Davis of the University of Michigan Health System.

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Overuse of technology could be harming marriages, survey suggests

A new study in America shows that, of 1001 adults surveyed, 65% admitted to spending more time with their computers than their spouse or partner.

84% of people said they’d grown more dependent upon their computer in the past 3 years. I wonder how many have grown more dependent (or interdependent) on their partner in that time?

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Anita Clayton interviewed about new book: Women, Sex, and the Quest for Intimacy

The Charlottesville News talks to Anita Clayton about her new book “Satisfaction: Women, Sex, and the Quest for Intimacy”. The interview covers sex education, self-esteem, overcoming issues of sexuality, and the unrealistic portrayal of women’s sexuality by the media.

An interesting interview of this UVA professor of psychiatry and obstetrics and gynaecology.

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Children with alcohol-abusing parents need as much care as those of drug-abusers

A new report from the Aberlour Child Care Trust and the Scottish Association of Alcohol and Drug Action Teams has recommended that the children of parents who abuse alcohol need the same services as those offered to children of drug abusers.

The authors of the report, “A Matter of Substance? Alcohol or Drugs: Does it make a difference to the child?”, said about 100,000 Scottish children were affected by parental alcohol abuse, and that number is sure to be reflected across the UK

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