Low income families with parents in part-time work could lose about £4,000 a year because of a change in tax credits, Labour says.

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Tax change ‘to cost families £4k’

If Wendy Braitman were writing a screenplay about her life, this scene would play at the top, to set the tone. It is 1993, and she is the 39-year-old only daughter of her parents’ long and loving marriage. Her mother has suffered a stroke, so Braitman has flown from California to New York to be with her. She finds her mom awake, but groggy, and hopped up on meds. After an embrace, her mother asks, “So, how’s your boyfriend?” Read full article > >

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The single life: Some people never find the love of their lives. And live to tell about it.

Parents protest over two accused teachers.

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All Staff Replaced at Sex-Probe School

Relatives seek compensation for a boy orphaned when his parents were killed by timber falling off a lorry.

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Relatives seek compensation for a boy orphaned when his parents were killed by timber falling off a lorry.

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Thinking of cashing in on the Beyoncé baby boom? Too late! That train has already left the station, only four weeks after little Blue Ivy Carter was born . On Jan. 26, new parents Beyoncé and Jay-Z filed an application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to protect the baby’s name — and reserve it for a future line of baby carriages, baby cosmetics, diaper bags and other undoubtedly fabulous accoutrements for the fashion-forward infant. Read full article > >

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‘Blue Ivy,’ the trademark: Feds move fast on rights to Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s baby’s name

A family justice system change giving children legal rights to maintain relationships with both parents after separation attracts criticism.

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Child access shake-up criticised

Children are to get legal rights to maintain proper relationships with both their parents, as part of a shake-up of the family justice system.

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Children’s access rights pledge

First lady Michelle Obama joined Labor Secretary Hilda Solis Monday to propose an expansion to the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) that would give more job protection to military caregivers. The proposed rules would allow spouses, parents and children of service members to care for their loved ones, attend military functions, or deal with child care and family finances “without fear of losing their jobs,”Solis said. Read full article > >

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Michelle Obama, Labor Secretary Hilda Solis propose more job protection for military caregivers

A 3-year-old child, her fierce parents and a group of doctors are introducing many of us to one of the most disturbing debates within medical ethics. The child is Amelia Rivera. She has a rare chromosomal disorder called Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome, which causes severe developmental delays. She also needs a kidney transplant within the next six to 12 months. Read full article > >

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Denying an organ to a ‘mentally retarded’ child

Child care centers are adapting in today’s economy, as parents work ever longer days, take on second jobs and accept odd shifts to make ends meet.

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Day Care Centers Adapt to Round-the-Clock Demands

Cuts to speech and language services are leaving parents struggling to get help for their children, England’s departing communication tsar says.

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Warning over speech support cuts

Most actors face a moment in their youth when they must choose between pursuing acting or taking safer routes — the useful degrees and 9-to-5 safety nets suggested by well-meaning parents. For Jim Broadbent, known to millions as Hogwarts professor Horace Slughorn , family legacy presented a different choice: Should he stay an actor or become an artist? Read full article > >

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Jim Broadbent needed little imagination to play Denis Thatcher in ‘The Iron Lady’

Occuparenting isn’t easy. Your precious children? The ones who had violin lessons and SAT tutors and years of orthodontia and organic lunches? They are now sleeping under tarps, in the mud, rain and frigid temperatures, in an encampment that is home to an epic urban rat infestation . And their new neighbors are a sizable portion of the nation’s hard-core homeless population. Next week hordes of them plan to Occupy Congress , a protest that could spark confrontations with the U.S. Capitol Police and lead to arrests. Read full article > >

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Occupy squalor: the ultimate test for helicopter parents

LOS ANGELES—Researchers at the Parents Television Council have helpful drop-down menus on their computers, loaded with just about every profanity and dirty slang term imaginable. They are handy shortcuts — there are additional ones for violent and sexual content — as the nonprofit group’s headphone-wearing analysts monitor every network prime-time entertainment broadcast for offensive language, bleeped profanity, flashes of nudity, threesomes and gore. Read full article > >

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Supreme Court case tests FCC’s power to police TV indecency