Marriages have a greater chance of success when spouses are able to identify when their partner is feeling sad or down, new research has found. According to the study from Southern Methodist University, Dallas, most married couples are good at knowing when their partner is happy, but are less successful at picking up more negative…
Recent research from Canada has found that the happiest marriages tend to be found amongst couples who married at the same time or later than the majority of their peers, rather than amongst couples who married early. The study, by researchers at the University of Alberta, set out to discover “the optimal age for marriage…
Recent research into adoption has led to calls for adoption laws across the UK to be reviewed to allow for greater contact between adopted children and their birth families. The study was led was Brid Featherstone, who is Professor of Social Work at the University of Huddersfield, and was commissioned by the British Association of…
The latest House Price Index from Nationwide has revealed that annual UK house price growth slowed down in February this year, falling from 3.2% in January to 2.2%. Average house prices also fell by 0.3% over the month. The average price in February 2018 stood at £210,402, which is a slight fall over the previous…
The Department for Work and Pensions has published an update on the work of the Child Support Agency. The Child Support Agency (CSA) was set up in 1993 and was responsible for two primary functions: To calculate how much child maintenance should be paid If necessary collect, enforce and transfer payments between parents. It defines…
The latest House Price Index from Halifax has revealed that house prices in the last three months to January were 2.2% higher than in the same three months a year earlier, although the annual change in January was lower than in December (2.7%). Other key statistics contained in the report include: House prices remained unchanged…
The Department for Work and Pensions has published the results of a survey conducted among separated parents who had made contact with its Child Maintenance Options Service. Child Maintenance Options provides impartial information and support to help separated parents make decisions about their child maintenance arrangements. It very much promotes the use of family-based child…
When parents separate or divorce it is usually in the best interests of their children if the parents can agree to some form of co-parenting arrangement, where both parents continue to play an active role in their children’s lives. However, in the UK there is no real requirement for parents to work together to put…
The Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) recently issued a reminder of the ongoing issue of international parental child abduction and the support than can be available to those affected. International child abduction is when one parent takes or keeps their child outside the country in which the child usually lives, without the permission of the…
Scotland’s most expensive street is once again to be found in St Andrews, new research has revealed. According to Bank of Scotland, Golf Place, which is a short walk from the famous Old Course, has an average house price of £2,179,000. However, Edinburgh still has the highest number of expensive streets in Scotland. Aberdeen now…
