| Role Of New Fathers Promoted In Fathers Direct Maternity Guide
A unique guide launched today by Fathers Direct, backed by Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt, sets out the way maternity services should engage with fathers, to benefit children, mums and fathers themselves.
Including New Fathers offers a wealth of policy guidance and practical advice on how to include fathers effectively in maternity services. It reflects the changing nature of families: today, 88 per cent of fathers attend their child's birth, a figure that has risen significantly in the last 40 years and fathers now provide one third of parental care of children - eight times more than 30 years ago and more care than professional childcarers. [1].
The guide reflects first hand experiences of midwives and other professionals who work with fathers and includes many of their hints and tips.
The parent trap
They're just merging into big conglomerates," and I know plenty of 20-somethings who would ardently agree. Just when their exhausted parents thought they'd seen the back of them, they fly back to the nest - and bring their girlfriends/boyfriends with them. Affectionately known as "Kippers" (Kids in Parents' Pockets Eroding Retirement Savings), recent research showed that 6,8 million over-18s in the UK still live with their parents and almost one million are still at home by the age of 40. With ever-increasing mountains of student debt, rocketing house prices and laissez-faire attitudes to the "serious" business of marriage and children, could it be that a cosy new family-demographic is emerging, which includes two parents and at least one of their adult offspring? I have at least 15 friends between the ages of 23 and 33 who still live with their parents.
Archived Profile: Frank Giustra
VANCOUVER - Frank Giustra, a super-rich Vancouver mining and movie mogul with a midas touch, has used his wealth to become a friend of Bill -- Bill being former U.S. President Bill Clinton. As such, Giustra has placed his private jet at Clinton's disposal, flying with the former president on trips to Asia and Africa during the past two years. The former Howe Street wunderkind is a member of the board of trustees of the Clinton Foundation, the charitable and activist vehicle established by Clinton during his post-presidency. .
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