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	Spring 2010: No 139 AGM and Conference General Election 2010 Election 2010: The Parties and the Family Labour Conservatives Liberal Democrats Questions for Candidates Sexualisation of Young People Review The impact of music videos and lyrics Government forced to drop sex education and home education plans from Children, Schools and Families Bill 640 headteachers, school governors and faith leaders in opposition to Children, Schools and Families Bill Sex education and home education - the law remains unchanged Cohabitation in the 21st Century Abstinence study shows positive results New Sponsor: Professor Brenda Almond
	Winter 2009/2010: No 138 Parents told to stand clear as government seeks to impose its new morality on children Teaching homosexuality in schools – making it up as they go along Too Much, Too Soon: the government’s plans for your child’s sex education Home education: Government proposes ‘excessive powers’ that undermine key parental freedoms Home education: the government’s plans in brief Home education review: ‘slapdash’ ‘panic riven’, and ‘unfortunate’ Open letter to The Guardian Home education review: what happened when Weighed and found wanting – local authority statistics on home education A Mother’s Work: How feminism, the market and policy shape family life What Women Want… and how they can get it The Spoilt Generation: Why restoring authority will make our children and society happier You’re Teaching My Child What? A physician exposes the lies of sex education and how they harm your child Consultation on new sex and relationships education guidance What does ‘morality’ mean? Annual General Meeting and Conference 2010 Baroness Diana Elles (1921-2009)
	Autumn 2009: No 137 How parents are being replaced by institutions Why does the government immediately associate the word ‘motherhood’ with registered childcare? The health benefits of full-time motherhood Polyamory: The Perfectly Plural Postmodern Condition Children must be taught about ‘the right to sexual pleasure’, say government advisors New UNESCO Guidelines aim to desensitise children, parents and teachers and promote liberal sexual attitudes worldwide £6m government-funded programme fails to reduce teenage pregnancy, drunkenness and drug misuse The death of respect The surveillance state Home education: the fight to keep the family free 21st Century Boys Contemporary Social Evils Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty: Emerging Conflicts
	Summer 2009: No 136 Please respond to the government’s consultation on PSHE Government does not bring up children – parents do Two new titles from Family Education Trust Annual General Meeting and Conference Local reports Devon Hampshire Alive to the World Northern Ireland Cornwall Ireland London Challenge Team UK Teenage pregnancy: Dissecting the evidence The dangerous rise of therapeutic education Home education proposals pose serious threat to all families FPA forced to withdraw leaflet for primary school pupils
	Spring 2009: No 135 AGM and conference A Good Childhood Home Education Review Broadcasting standards body bows to pressure from contraception and abortion industries over advertising rules Government welfare plans offer incentives to family breakdown Database State Key databases with a focus on children Patient teenagers: the 'saved sex' message makes a difference Government misses the point Government to consult on PSHE Healthy lives, brighter futures: The strategy for children and young people's health Counting the cost of family breakdown The Dangerous Rise of Therapeutic Education 'Don't tell your children the difference between right and wrong,' government tells parents The failure of the teenage pregnancy strategy Kathleen Cassidy
	Winter 2008/2009: No 134 Government presses ahead with sex education plans without consulting parents How the government has gone back on its word How the sex and relationship education review group marginalised parents Sex Education or Indoctrination? now available in Romanian Why abortion? Why the family matters New health education leaflet Families in Britain: the evidence The child care transition: ‘a gamble with today’s children and tomorrow’s world’ Redefining the family 21 reasons why gender matters ‘Wellbeing’ – what does it mean? ContactPoint prepares to go live Government upholds parental use of reasonable physical chastisement Publications available from Family Education Trust Annual General Meeting and Conference
	Autumn 2008: No 133 From promoting harm to preventing good Review article: Licensed to Hug How child protection becomes perverse and counterproductive Birth outside marriage: Does it really matter? The Next Generation: Facing up to the challenge of relational and emotional poverty The HPV Vaccine - Reasons for caution The HPV Vaccine: Questions and Answers for parents Review: Hooked: New science on how casual sex is affecting our children Sex education lobby fights to replace parents with the state Teenage Pregnancy Unit admits statistical error Royal Mail honours leading eugenicist Review: Governments and Marriage Education Policy UN children's rights committee seeks to impose radical social agenda Review: Growing Up…Growing Wise@Home
	Summer 2008: No 132 Arctic Conditions – towards a better way of taxing families The retreat from reason Annual General Meeting and Conference Local Reports Northern Ireland Cornwall Derbyshire Oxfordshire Ireland Scotland Alive to the World Challenge Team UK Education and the culture Rites of passage in a modern age Family Life Award Government agency has no answer to high STI rates Social engineering in schools Abortion rates continue to rise among the young Sex and Relationship Education review New trustee - Dr Joseph Lim
	Spring 2008: No 131 AGM and conference Government presses ahead with writing fathers out of the script Falling marriage rates – mark of a mature society or cause for concern? Government launches review of sex education The Sex Education Forum: Are they getting it right? Towards an EU strategy on the rights of the child The damaging effects of social dysfunction and family breakdown Have public attitudes really become so liberal? Book reviews The Butterfly Book The Great Reading Disaster Courts urged to go easy on good parents Comment on new sentencing guidelines Dismantling the altar of ‘safe sex’ A letter from Valerie Riches
	Winter 2007/2008: No 130 Children’s Plan sends out more mixed messages about the role of parents The Children’s Plan: What the politicians are saying Facing the facts about sex education and the morning-after pill Government resists pressure to ban smacking Comment on smacking review Is cohabitation a good preparation for marriage? Home education guidelines New sponsor: Michael McKenzie CB, QC ContactPoint to be delayed Denis Riches (1926-2007) Northern Ireland children’s commissioner fails in bid to ban smacking Government to review sex education in schools Annual General Meeting and Conference
	Autumn 2007: No 129 SEAL: Concerns mount over ‘large-scale psychological experiment on young people’ Children’s right to confidentiality trumps parental responsibility and the age of consent, says GMC Parliamentary Committee decides fathers are dispensable Under-18 abortions continue to rise The last word on abstinence? Northern Ireland High Court ruling has implications for freedom of speech throughout the UK ContactPoint Book Reviews Questions Kids Ask About Sex The War Between the State and the Family From Innocents to Agents Who Cares? Does Divorce Law Affect the Divorce Rate? Marriage and the provision of unpaid care Alarming rise in the use of drugs to control children’s behaviour
	Summer 2007: No 128 Realism and optimism at annual conference Prospects for family policy under Gordon Brown Local reports Family Life Award The role of the family in preventing youth crime The Fragmenting Family: Is the family just a social construct? FYC accused of immorality by British Humanist Association Children's commissioner rebrands as 11 Million Review of Built on Love The sexual orientation regulations and employment Government review of law on smacking Ofsted's ideological bias in sex education Professor James S Scott
	Spring 2007: No 127 AGM and Conference New sexual orientation regulations place severe constraints on freedom of conscience How the regulations were railroaded through Parliament A vote too far Unicef report highlights importance of family structure for the wellbeing of children Popular education publisher trivialises child abuse in new book for schools Book review: The Fragmenting Family Same-sex parenting: Is it in the best interests of the child? Magistrate forced to resign over same-sex adoption Violence in schools STIs continue to rise among young women Children's Database to be known as ContactPoint Government respect for home education MP presents Bill calling for respect for parents
	Winter 2006/2007: No 126 Sexual orientation regulations seek to force public approval of homosexual practice Unease about children’s database continues to grow Children’s database: quotable quotes The children’s list that will do more harm than good Dutch myths discarded by Teachers TV Flagship sex education programme fails to reduce teenage pregnancy rates Growing up …growing wise Morning-after pill fails to reduce unplanned pregnancy rates Remotely Controlled: How television is damaging our lives and what we can do about it Freedom’s Orphans: Raising youth in a changing world The State of the Nation Report: Fractured Families How much do parents really know? Sex education at a school near you? Government proposes to make fathers redundant Teenage contraceptive schemes proving counterproductive Annual General Meeting and Conference
	Autumn 2006: No 125 New UK study confirms benefits of marriage Good Childhood Inquiry Rise in childhood depression and behavioural and developmental problems attracts widespread concern Toxic Childhood: How the modern world is damaging our children and what we can do about it Advisory group says abortion should be presented as an option to children Abortions performed on married women account for less than a fifth of the total The Lost Generation: Why our children are in crisis Information Sharing Index Consultation Children’s commissioner sets out in pursuit of a radical children’s rights agenda Commons support for smacking ban vastly overestimated When teenage pregnancy is planned Morning-after pill fails to cut abortion rate Life without children Family Policy, Family Changes: Sweden, Italy and Britain Compared Full-Time Mothers annual meeting Teenage pregnancy – more of the same British public remains strongly opposed to a ban on smacking Sexual orientation discrimination regulations
	Summer 2006: No 124 Children: Over Surveilled, Under Protected Annual General Meeting and Conference Challenges to marriage, freedom, family and the welfare of children and young people Local Reports - Scotland - Avon - West Sussex - Cornwall - Republic of Ireland - Devon - London - Oxfordshire - Challenge Team UK The effects of early childcare on children’s development The Fight for the Family goes on Gap Year Opportunity Sexual Orientation Regulations Ideology perpetuates Dutch myth School nurse accountability RCN votes against smacking ban Law Commission consultation
	Spring 2006: No 123 Annual General Meeting and Conference The Nationalisation of Childhood Youth Matters: Next Steps The influence of the media on teenage sexual attitudes and behaviour Role of school nurses to expand Sexual orientation regulations threaten to undermine traditional morality and religious liberty European Parliament Resolution on ‘Homophobia in Europe' The social costs of feminism Family structure and children's educational outcomes If family structure in the USA were as strong today as it was in 1970… Teenagers: Why do they do that? What age of consent? Paternity leave problem Wraparound childcare warning National Parenting Academy BBC upholds FYC complaint Sponsors
	Winter 2005-2006: No 122 Annual General Meeting and Conference Doubts remain over children's database In loco parentis: badge of honour to be discarded or restored? Confidentiality policy challenged in High Court 'Morning-after pill' figures cause concern Special offer - two books for the price of one Book Reviews o Mentoring Marriages o No Man's Land o Family Structure and Economic Outcomes o The Tina Project The social and economic advantages of supporting marriage Families and the state Teenage sex and drug-taking increases risk of depression Ten benefits of frequent family meals Child abuse deaths and family structure Home education: a 'fundamental right' The hidden costs of childcare Civil partnership doesn't spell marriage Dr Trevor Stammers Special News Update: High Court judgment drives wedge between parents and their children High Court judgment does young people no favours
	Autumn 2005: No 121 ‘Somewhere to go, something to do' – the Green Paper on youth Do we really need more public investment in youth activities? Youth ‘matters', but what about marriage? ‘The Future of Family Law' Building a culture of respect: Where does the family fit in? Parenting orders The Respect Task Force ‘Fiscal Policy and the Family' Civil partnerships and ‘neutral language' Child protection and ‘the right to confidentiality' Contraception and unwanted pregnancies The growing use of drugs to control children's behaviour Feminist agenda burdens women and society Children in the dock – and on the bench Working wives and divorce Nurseries cause toddlers stress Human Fertilisation and Embryology Review
	Summer 2005: No 120 Annual General Meeting Family Life Award Local reports Parents, Children and the Law The importance of fatherhood Extended schools Restoring choice to parents Respect for parents Information sharing databases Rise in out-of-wedlock births Young people and cannabis Jack Proom
	Spring 2005: No 119 Annual conference General Election 2005 Questions for candidates The Price of Parenthood Child Rearing for Fun Appointment of children’s commissioner for England The dangers of information sharing databases Truth in history? Angela Appleby
	Winter 2004/5: No 118 Limited choice for parents: the government’s vision for ‘the best start for children’ Policies aimed at driving mothers out to work contribute to anti-social behaviour Westminster Hall debate on parents and family policy ‘Celebrating the tenth anniversary of the International Year of the Family’ The relationship between the family and the state Children Act 2004 Mother mounts challenge to confidentiality policy Schools after Section 28 Public funds for Channel 4? Baroness O’Cathain
	Autumn 2004: No 117 Government guidance on under-16 confidentiality policies The courts and the age of consent Police concerns about moves to change the law on smacking The impact of TV on teenage sexual activity FYC in the news Why not civil partnerships?		Summer 2004: No 116 Report on annual conference Sue Relf – Family Life Award 2004 From the Director’s Report… Local Reports Children Bill Update Why smacking should not be banned Sweden and the BBC AGM 2005
	Spring 2004: No 115 Teenage pregnancy strategy fails teens The Children Bill - Tracking children - Children's commissioner - Threat to reasonable discipline Challenge Team UK Annual General Meeting		Winter 2003/4: No 114 Changes and Challenges ‘Adolescent health’ Sexual health meeting at Stormont Words of wisdom from Melanie Phillips Harry Benson on domestic violence The Other 3Rs Annual General Meeting The Art of Loving Well in local libraries News in brief

	Autumn 2003: No 113 Every child matters Abstinence under fire Who would have thought it? The Other 3 Rs goes live!		Summer 2003: No 112 FET AGM & Conference A Date for Your Diaries Section 28 Legacies A sad loss Book reviews A Message from the Founder President

	Spring 2003: No 111 Annual Conference Dutch Utopia Children's Commissioner for England? Children's sexual 'rights' The 'proof' that sex education works Review: Sex, condoms and STDs		Winter 2002/3: No 110 The Challenge Team The Other Three Rs goes live! Ronald Butt CBE The Dutch Utopia Book Review News in brief Some recent publications available from the society And finally . .

	Autumn 2002: No 109 The Baroness Young, DL Experiments in Living News in Brief The Challenge Team Population control and family planning A report from Scotland Review: There is such a thing as society Some recent publications available from the society		Summer 2002: No 108 AGM & Conference Family Life Award 2002 Those Family Life Awards in Full ! A Date for Your Diary Inquiry on Sexual Health The Failure of Sex Education

	Spring 2002: No 107 Important New Research Taking a Firm Line on Abstinence Book Reviews News in Brief Annual General Meeting And Finally		Winter 2001/2: No 106 Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles Love Says 'Wait' Children In Need Annual Conference Abstinence Education Rejected by the Sex Education Forum News in Brief New Factsheets

	Autumn 2001: No 105 IPPF and Parents' Rights News in Brief Top Ten Myths of Divorce Teenage Pregnancy Strategies Review of The 'M' Word		Summer 2001: No 104 AGM & Conference Family Life Award A Date for Your Diary A Prophetic Voice Happy Ever After Bookshelf

	Spring 2001: No 103 Annual Conference George Brown on Divorce Sex, Lies and Cigarettes Girl Guides News in Brief Book Review Obituary: Dr Ambrose John King		Winter 2000/1: No 102 Abstinence in the BMJ How much child abuse Making Sense of Censorship Transferable Tax To school or not to school? Parental leave... will it really help? Prof Jerome Lejeune Book Reviews

	Autumn 2000: No 101 Sex Under Sixteen? A date for your diary Director's Message ...and from the Founder President Sex and Relationship Education Guidance Sexually Transmitted Infections Same Sex 'Marriage' Amen to that! Bequests and Legacies Book Reviews Special Offers ChildLine		Summer 2000: No 100 All change for Waterloo! Family Life Award: Citation Annual General Meeting Smacking blindness Well done Safeway! Marriage 2000 FET in Scotland News Items... European Employment Directive

	Spring 2000: No 99 Annual Conference Book Review Children's Society News in brief Neo-traditionalism Parents: personæ non gratæ Parental disipline Section 28 Whose democracy?		Winter 1999/2000: No 98 News in brief Section 28 Funding Marriage support The ‘Widow’ Reaction Book Review UN Convention on Children’s Rights