Well, if you can’t beat them join them. Since Brexit and its political consequences seems to be about the only story in town at the moment, I thought I’d add my voice to the tumult. Whatever one thinks of the result, there have been a number of attempts to describe Brexit in terms of a…
Everyone knows that bad relationships are bad news. According to a report this week from Relate (pdf), reported by BBC news, 18% of people in relationships are ‘distressed‘. That’s an awful lot of people, 2.87 million apparently. This means that If we look around at any group of people, our friends, our family, colleagues in the workplace, chances are that…
This is the week thousands of couples head for the lawyers, right? The first working day of January is even nicknamed D-Day: Divorce Day. The day when couples who fought over where to hang the holly jostle their way to the front of the solicitors queue. But is there any truth to this? Or is…
So you want to be famous? Or perhaps married to somebody famous?Be careful what you wish for. Celebrities may have the glamour. the fame and very often the money. They may be fabulous at acting, singing, presenting or sports. Some have mastered the art of being famous. even if nobody quite knows why. However, as…
“Don’t stay together for the sake of the children” trumpets the family law organisation Resolution in today’s Guardian, following their new survey of 514 young people aged 14-22 who had experienced parental separation an average of ten years earlier. 82% of these young people said that “I’d rather my parents separated or divorced rather than stay together if…
Imagine you’re a divorce lawyer – and indeed you may be. Now imagine that every time one of your clients comes to see you to finalise their divorce papers, you routinely ask them a couple of questions about the state of their marriage. Six months to a year before the divorce, you ask, how happy were…
My dad was just 61 when he died. I never had the deep and meaningful relationship with him that I craved. From the day he divorced my mother when I was aged three, I probably saw him a couple of times a year. On those occasions, we got on extremely well and I enjoyed his…
“Revealed: shocking cost of divorce for children” is today’s front page lead story in the Times. Divorce has a devastating impact on the children of divided couples, leading to poor examination results and driving them to abuse alcohol or drugs, according to a survey being made public today. Almost two thirds of children whose parents…
Janet and John had been happily married for many years. To their friends, Barack, Angela and Francois, they were outstanding role models. Janet and John lived together and clearly enjoyed each others company. Friends and family who came to stay were made to feel extremely welcome. They had a beautiful house and were great hosts…
A new study has just come out concluding that whether parents cooperate or not makes little difference to how children cope with divorce. So ‘Does divorce always damage children?’ became the rather loaded topic of discussion for the lunchtime show at a local BBC radio station today, to which I was asked to contribute. (You can listen again…
