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Mothers and partners will gain the legal right if they lose a baby before 24 weeks, in Labour workers’ rights reformParents in Britain will be granted the right to bereavement leave after suffering a miscarriage as part of Labour’s changes to workers’ …
Relatives tell of their determination to see good come from the killing of their loved ones in 2005 London bombingsIn the city of Bhubaneswar, the capital of the north-east Indian state of Odisha, there is an eye clinic that has transformed the lives o…
Rise in number of babies born to men over 60 a factor in small rise in birthrate, shows ONS dataAn increase in babies born to fathers over 60 helped trigger the first increase in the number of births in England and Wales since 2021.Data from the Office…
Experts find link between compulsive use of social media, phones and video games and mental health problemsTeenagers who show signs of being addicted to social media, mobile phones or video games are at greater risk of suicidal behaviour and emotional …
Hundreds of fathers protest with children to call for two weeks’ statutory paternity leave to be increasedHundreds of fathers took to the streets of London and Edinburgh on Wednesday to demand better paternity leave, in a protest that was billed as the…
Davina Schonle prevented from entering event with eight-month-old and had to cancel meetings for tech startupAn entrepreneur has told how she was left feeling “humiliated” after being turned away from London Tech Week, an annual corporate event, becaus…
The change is designed to halt the use of kirakira (shiny or glittery) names that have proliferated among parents hoping to add a creative flourish Parents in Japan will no longer have free rein over the names they give their children, after the introd…
White House policies on immigration, families, and children have been pockmarked by all kinds of contradictionsSome of the children were too young to stand on their own. Instead, they sat on their parents’ knees or in their parents’ arms, waving Americ…
Prince Harry and King Charles will need to put past grievances to one side if they are to move on from their estrangement, experts sayFor most families, fallouts and squabbles are a regular occurrence. But what happens when those rifts deepen to an est…
Meeting will hear how exposure to verbal abuse leads to biological changes and can make mental ill-health likelierBeing shouted at by their parents reshapes children’s brains and makes them more likely to have mental ill-health and struggle to maintain…