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| Doctors should screen all mothers for depression and anxiety in the weeks after giving birth, according to the NHS advisory body. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence said staff are too often confusing symptoms of mental health disorders, such as sleep disruption and changes to appetite, with “what is considered normal” in postnatal women. | |
| Health | The Telegraph - 8th February 2017 |
| Researchers found the majority of couples who are unhappy when their first child is born feel fulfilled a decade later. Seven in ten couples stay together following the birth of their first child despite being unhappy, according to the Marriage Foundation. | |
| Family | The Telegraph - 8th February 2017 |
| The United Kingdom has among the highest rates of family instability in the developed world, a study by an international group of academics has found. Three in five (62 per cent) British children born to unmarried parents living together experience family breakdown before they hit their teens. In contrast, only 45 per cent of American children, 15 per cent of Belgian children and six per cent of Spanish children born to cohabiting parents undergo the same seismic shift in their family dynamic by the age of 12. | |
| Family | Marriage Foundation - 5th February 2017 |
| Campaigners have called on the Scottish Government to introduce a ban on drug-driving following the publication of an alarming new study. Research in the Forensic Science International journal found there were as many motorists’ deaths relating to cannabis use as alcohol use between 2012 and 2015 in Scotland. One in five drivers killed in road accidents tested positive for cannabis during the period. | |
| Crime | The Christian Institute - 10th February 2017 |
| Child-on-child sex offences have significantly increased over the past four years, new figures have revealed. In England and Wales there was a 78 per cent increase in reported offences, with 9,290 in 2016 compared to 5,215 in 2013. | |
| Crime | The Christian Institute - 10th February 2017 |
| Since abortion was first legalised in the former Soviet Union in 1920, there have been over one billion babies killed worldwide...Data was collated from over 100 nations, territories and regions where abortion figures are available, up to 2015. | |
| World Issues | The Christian Institute - 10th February 2017 |
| A bill to decriminalise abortion in England and Wales passed its first reading in the House of Commons this week. Labour MP Diana Johnson's Ten Minute Rule Bill, which is being backed by abortion giant BPAS, would effectively remove all legal restrictions on abortion. MPs voted 172 to 142 in favour of the radical proposal. | |
| The Law | Christian Concern - 17th March 2017 |
| Marriage is “associated with more family stability for children across the globe”, and cohabitation “typically associated with more instability”, a new study has found. The report by the Social Trends Institute also stated that there is a “growing consensus” that children are more likely to thrive in a stable family than in an unstable one. | |
| Family | The Christian Institute - 10th February 2017 |
| Hospital staff in Wales were physically attacked more than 18,000 times while at work, figures from the last five years have revealed. The data showed that there were also 11,000 verbal assaults. | |
| Crime | The Sentinel – 28th December 2016 |
| The rise in online banking is being blamed on the closure of more than 1,000 banks across the UK over the last two years. New figures, revealed following research from Which?, have found that 1,046 branches shut between January 2015 and January 2017, with rural areas among the worst affected. Banking-giant HSBC was found to be the worst culprit after closing 321 branches – or 27 percent of its prance network over the 24-month period. | |
| Social Issues | The Sentinel – 2nd January 2017 |
| Promising to remain faithful will no longer be a legal requirement for marriages in Italy, if a controversial new Bill is passed, it was reported in December. Supporters of the Bill want to remove the word ‘fidelity’ from marriage contracts, as they claim unfaithfulness in marriage is outdated and obsolete. It has been backed by the Italian Senate. Its proponents want marriage contracts to contain the same wording as same sex civil partnerships, which were legalised in 2016. | |
| Family | Evangelical Now – February 2017 |
| A teacher lost this job in Canadian school for making his pro-life stance known to students, it was reported in January. The teacher explained in a law lesson that in a democracy there is often a difference ‘between people’s private morality and the law’, giving as an example his belief that abortion was wrong but the law was different to his view. One female pupil complained to a school administrator that she felt ‘unsafe’, a claim she also made after he apologised for upsetting her. | |
| Education | Evangelical Now – February 2017 |
| Millions in Madagascar, Malawi and Zimbabwe continue to face severe food shortages as a result of drought across the region, it was reported in January. People in rural communities were so desperate that they were prepared to risk eating locusts, which are known to be toxic. Young people are collapsing from hunger and exhaustion. | |
| World Issues | Evangelical Now – February 2017 |
| A portrait of Lord Carey was removed from the King’s College London campus, seemingly after the university bowed to pressure from LGBT campaigners, it was reported in January. | |
| Education | Evangelicals Now – February 2017 |
| A December report by the Care Quality Commission revealed that Marie Stopes, the UK’s biggest abortion group, failed to follow basic safety procedures and the commission reported more than 2,600 serious incidents during 2016. | |
| Health | Evangelicals Now – February 2017 |
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