Families Matter: New ESRI Report Reveals Problems in Irish Family Life:4th Mar 10
Families Matter: New ESRI Report Reveals Problems in Irish Family Life
Marriage in Ireland has declined steeply since the 1980s, a new report has confirmed. Family Figures:...More >>
“Children’s Rights” Amendment Might Be Anti-Parent, Anti-Child:1st Mar 10
“Children’s Rights” Amendment Might Be Anti-Parent, Anti-Child
The wording of a proposed “children’s rights” amendment to the Irish Constitution came to light last week. But...More >>
Bonding with Your Unborn Baby: 3D/4D Prenatal Scans Are Safe, Say Clinic and...:1st Mar 10
An Irish clinic offering parents-to-be keepsake three-dimensional (3D) or four-dimensional (4D) images of their unborn children has dismissed a new health warning that non-essential scanning...More >>
Lisbon May have Impact on Irish Children’s Rights:22nd Feb 10
The Lisbon Treaty could have a major impact on children’s rights in the Irish courts, an expert in child law says. Addressing the Four Jurisdictions Family Law Conference, Dr Ursula Kilkelly of...More >>
Children’s Amendment Will Give State More Power to Intrude into Families:15th Feb 10
The Oireachtas committee proposing a “children’s rights” referendum will propose an amendment that will lower the threshold for State intrusions into the family. The panel has also suggested...More >>
IFPA, “Rights” Group, Newspaper Push for Abortion in Ireland:11th Feb 10
Human Rights Watch is a well-known abortion advocacy group, so the news that it issued another document scolding a country for not introducing a liberal abortion regime was yawnfully...More >>
Ways to Protect, Support the Rights of the Family:11th Feb 10
In a letter to the Irish Times, Margaret Desbonnet from County Galway asked whether there’s “a danger, given the present investigative obsession with past abuses, that we could become...More >>
“Irish Examiner” Poll on Abortion “Misleading” and “Meaningless”, PLC Says:4th Feb 10
“Irish Examiner” Poll on Abortion “Misleading” and “Meaningless”, PLC Says
A poll in the "Irish Examiner" newspaper last week showing 60 per cent of 18-35-year-olds favouring...More >>
Meet Ireland’s “Two Little Fighters”, Mother Says They Are a “Gift”:1st Feb 10
Hassan and Hussein Benhaffaf were the picture of contentment last week as they prepared to leave hospital for home in east Cork. The seven-week-old boys, who were born joined at the chest in...More >>
Children in Lone-Parent Families Suffer Greater Problems, Irish Study Finds :21st Jan 10
A major Irish Government-backed study of childhood has found that children living in single-parent households have significant disadvantages compared to those in two-parent families. The...More >>