Jobless single parents are unfairly being put under pressure to return to work by the government, a charity says.New welfare rules mean 68,000 single parents whose youngest child is aged 10 or over will now get Jobseeker's Allowance instead of Income Support.Lone-parent charity Gingerbread says it means they face benefit cuts if they do not look for work but ministers have not kept promises to help...
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KLE Society’s Raja Lakhamagouda Pre-University College of Science will convene a meeting of parents and hold a day-long orientation programme on the “Art of Parenting” at the Dr. B.S. Jirge Auditorium in Belgaum city on Sunday.An unusual programme for a college to host, college principal C.N. Naikar describes it as a healthy practice and goes on to add that it is important to hold discussions on different...
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Parents are bearing thebrunt of the cold war between the Maruti van drivers, who take children toschool, and the police administration. The parents claim that the Maruti van isthe safest mode of transport for their wards while the police claim thattransporting children by van is totally illegal in the district. On Monday,parents, elected representatives of all political parties, RTO officials andpolice...
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reasons parents clash over their children are endless, especially now that more unemployed dads are filling in for back-to-work moms as the bad economy grinds through its second year.Nerves are taut on today's home front, compounding the challenge for parents looking to navigate and negotiate disparate views on child-rearing.“I've never seen such stress in parents and families,” said Michele Borba,...
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Lesbians make better parents than conventional couples, according to a director of the government’s parenting academy.Stephen Scott, director of research at the National Academy for Parenting Practitioners, told a meeting last week that the latest research showed that children of such couples did better in life.Speaking at the launch at the think tank Demos of a report on the influence of character...
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Lesbians make better parents than a man and a woman, says a British expert.According to Stephen Scott, director of research at the National Academy for Parenting Practitioners, kids who are taken care of by lesbian couples are more aspirational, reports The Times.Speaking at the launch at the think tank Demos of a report on the influence of character on life, Scott said: 'Lesbians make better parents...
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a bid to avoid getting bashed up by his parents, a 6-year-old boy in Shanghai has come up with a formula that could harm his parents.The youngster was said to have spent 2 hours in the restroom, devising the chemical to take revenge and claims the mixture can give wrinkles, reports the China Daily.The boy threatened to spray the "medicament", apparently made of shampoo, bath foam, soap and vinegar,...
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India!Thousands of parents with children in full-time training have yet to apply for a $200 grant from the Carpenter Government’s It Pays to Learn Allowance.Education and Training Minister Mark McGowan said parents could apply for the allowance each semester their child was enrolled in training.“Many parents may not realise they can apply for the allowance twice a year and may be missing out as a result,”...
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plan by the UK government for compulsory sex and drugs education for schoolchildren as young as five has sparked an outcry, with parents’ saying it was "infringing" their rights.
Personal, social and health education will be a new subject on the British national curriculum from the age of five, with schoolchildren forced to take sex and drugs education at under reforms announced...
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Once again the issue of feehike has taken recourse to the city streets as in the mid session, themanagement of St Thomas Senior Secondary School has issued circular to theparents regarding fee revision from the next session.Parents, afterjoining hands with Punjab Parents’ Association are all set to stageprotest against the school management. The members of parents’ associationdistributed pamphlets...
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