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Andy Burnham, Carers, Children’s health, Disability, family, Labour, Mental health, Parents and parenting, Politics, Social care, Society, UK newsThe care system fails to care for parents | Letters
Matilda Davis’s story should force us to confront an uncomfortable truth and…
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childhood trauma, community care, crime, debt, Editor Laura Hemming, Education, employment, ethnic minorities, ethnicity, family, family carers, finance, Gender, Housing, offending, physical health, poverty, Race, social connectedness, social determinants, Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, social skills, socioeconomic status, substance use, systematic review, victimisationSocial interventions for mental illness: who do they actually help?
When working as a psychiatrist people often tell me their main worries…
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Make the kids’ summer holidays go with a bang – play together like orangutans | Helen Pilcher
The school summer holidays are upon us. Cue the annual expectation that…
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Childbirth, Children, family, Health, Health & wellbeing, Life and style, Mental health, UK news, WomenAmid the social and political panic about falling birthrates, why not ask new mothers what they think? | Lucy Jones
It seems as though every week brings another news story on declining…
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crime, domestic violence, family, Mental health, neurodiversity, Parents and parenting, Sexual harassment, Society, UK news, Violence against women and girls, Young people‘The taboo within the taboo’: the parents sexually abused by their children
“I never thought I would have to report my child to the…
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‘I’m not afraid of dying any more’: comedian Eric Lampaert on his amnesia – and the memories he was happy to lose
On the day his life changed, Eric Lampaert woke up and saw…
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Children, family, Health, Life and style, Mental health, neurodiversity, Parents and parenting, Society, UK news, Young peopleAs parents, we’re struggling to support our children who are not working or studying | Letters
I was moved by the letter (3 July) from a parent whose…
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Children, family, Health, Life and style, Mental health, Parents and parenting, Society, Unemployment, Young people, Youth unemploymentConsider the parents caring for adult children not in work or education | Letter
Reading the comments below Annalisa Barbieri’s latest advice column online (I wish…
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Bulimia, Comedy, Culture, eating disorders, family, Health, Life and style, Mental health, Photography, SocietyComedian Joanne McNally looks back: ‘In my 20s, my bulimia was spiralling out of control. My breakdown was the making of me’
Joanne McNally in 1986 and recreating the image in 2026Joanne McNally in…
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Oliver’s mum was a narcissist and his dad avoidant. His own breakup forced him to address his dysfunctional childhood | Nicholas Purcell
We inherit more than eye colour and bone structure from our parents.…
