Married people are more likely to survive cancer than those who are single, a study suggests. Preliminary research on almost 60,000 people with a range of blood cancers found that,
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Nearly three million people in Britain are in “distressed” relationships where they regularly argue or consider divorce, a new report has found. The stresses of parenting and financial pressures are
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A learning disability charity is calling on a dating website to remove an “inappropriate, offensive and discriminatory” question from its site. Mencap has said OkCupid asks users as part of
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The Centre for Research on Families and Relationships (CRFR) at the University of Edinburgh are inviting applications for the Evelyn Gillan Impact Prize from professionals who have used research to make a
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A life of loneliness threatens aspects of someone’s health as much as physical inactivity in adolescence or diabetes in old age, new research claims. Lacking a network of friends or
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The Government should consider changing the “terrible” name of its Troubled Families initiative to stop people feeling stigmatised, peers have said. The programme aims to turn around the lives of
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Northern Ireland’s ban on same-sex marriage breaches human rights legislation and marginalises gay people as “biological oddities”, a court has been told. Two couples, Grainne Close and Shannon Sickles and
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For the first time a majority of Stormont Assembly members have voted to legalise same sex marriage in Northern Ireland, but the law change will not happen due to a
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A conference for consultant social workers has been held in mid-Wales, with the focus on ‘putting families and relationships at the heart of social work practice.’ Supported by the Care
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?Research, which aims to narrow a generation gap that is being widened by the ageing of the population, was showcased by the University of Huddersfield’s Families and Intergenerational Relationships Research Group (FaIR) at their
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