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Political impartiality guidance for schools
The Government says: “Everyone has their own views on particular subjects and issues and teachers are no different, but it is important that teachers explain things to their students in a way that is impartial. Teaching about political issues and the differing views on these is an essential part of the curriculum, helping pupils to…
Police find missing girl Paislee Shultis in secret room in New York
A six-year-old girl missing for two years has been found in a “small cold and wet” secret room under a staircase in New York state. Paislee Shultis’s biological parents allegedly kidnapped her after losing custody in 2019 and concealed her from the outside world at her grandfather’s home in Saugerties 150 miles away.
The impact of equal parenting time laws on family outcomes and risky behavior by teenagers: Evidence from Spain
Abstract: Due to legal reforms, equal parenting time (EPT) laws in Spain now apply to approximately 40% of all divorces, with likely implications for family outcomes and teenagers’ risky behavior. Consistent with theories of bargaining power within marriage, we find that EPT laws decrease contentious and wife-initiated divorces and increase the employment of mothers relative…
Opinion: Care-leaving age, Teenagers are children too
“There should be a national outcry about the government’s decision to withhold the entitlement to care from the over-15s” says The Guardian in the opening to their editorial on care being withdrawn from children at age 15. They go on to point out “The Children Act of 1989 allowed for unspecified “other arrangements” to take…
