There are frequent warnings about how expensive it is to have a child in the UK, but father-of-six and Sticking Up For Siblings author Colin Brazier says scare stories shouldn't detract from the benefits of children having siblings.
Financial service providers - and their press offices - like to treat us to bulletins about the cost of raising a child.
There are several studies each year and they peddle catchy acronyms like Cots (the Cost Of The Sibling).
But it would be naive to assume the authors of these reports are entirely disinterested. Most PR folk in the City are there to plug a product.
In recent years Cots estimates have been running well ahead of inflation. Recently the figure has been put around the £250,000 mark.
What is the purpose of marriage in Islam? What are the benefits?
Marriage is a bond that makes it permissible for a man and a woman to have an intimate relationship. This would then allow a child to be born from that relationship and to have its name linked to both the mother and the father.
Can a boy/girl choose her own marriage partner?
Yes a boy or girl can chose their own marriage partners so long as it meets the criteria of Shariah (Islamic law). This means that they should be Muslim and their beliefs should not be of those that take them out of the fold of Islam. (1)
Do you need the consent of your parents to get married?
Yes? No? Maybe? And why do you think that?
Thousands of Cambridge students have been targeted by a firm offering up to £750 to egg donors.
Leaflets were stuck in their university pigeonholes, making an emotional plea to help a couple unable to have children
Food banks were almost unheard of just a few years ago - now they are being opened in the UK at the rate of one every four days.
For Kenny and Leanne Jones, spiralling debts caused by rising utility bills and high rents led them to the St Andrew's Community Centre in north Liverpool.
The goods they will take home from the food bank there to their four children will mean, for a few days at least, there will be meals on the table.
Children grow up addicted to online porn sites: Third of 10-year-olds have seen explicit images
A 'guinea p**’ generation of children is growing up addicted to hardcore internet pornography, MPs were warned last night.
Four out of five 16-year-old boys and girls regularly access porn online while one in three ten-year-olds has seen explicit material, a disturbing cross-party report reveals.
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ALMOST 200 families with 10 or more children each get £60,000 a year in hand-outs, new figures reveal.
These huge broods in workless households are costing taxpayers nearly £12million a year.
The figures, released by the Department for Work and Pensions, will fuel fears that some welfare scroungers are having large families simply to increase their state-funded incomes.
They revealed that a workless family with 10 children under the age of 18 could receive around £1,177-a-week in benefits by claiming Jobseeker’s Allowance, Child Tax Credits, Housing Benefit, Council Tax Benefit and Child Benefit. This adds up to £61,204 a year.
And last night ministers vowed to continue to crack down on the lavish expenditure by capping benefits for all households at a maximum of £500 a week
So my 13 year old sister asked me to speak to my parents about home schooling her. She tells me she just doesn't like the environment at school. It's not that everybody's a bad influence at school but the majority are bound by almost no rules.
My older sister thinks it's a bad idea for her to be away from other girls her age and that it may have a bad affect on her in the future and i think my dad pretty much agrees.
I haven't yet discussed this with my dad as i don't know what's best atm. I do need to talk to him soon or my lil sis is gonna kill me.
IMO home schooling has it's positives and negatives...unlike some i don't agree that it cuts her off from society completely.
Is following religion a choice for a child?
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