One in four mothers is now a single parent, having made a ?lifestyle choice? to rely on benefits rather than a partner, according to a report.
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February 25th, 2010
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February 25th, 2010
We listened to the public and our new policy will concentrate on the motives of the suspect, not on the person who died, writes the DPP.
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February 25th, 2010
Mercy killers will face prosecution but those who assist the suicide of loved ones are unlikely to face the courts, according to guidelines to be announced today.
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February 25th, 2010
People who assist another person commit suicide and then make a financial gain from the death can still escape charges under new prosecution guidelines.
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February 25th, 2010
Keir Starmer, the Director of Public Prosecutions, has issued new guidance on assisted suicide. What are the key questions?
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February 25th, 2010
It?s a dark day for the assisted-death lobbyists at Dignity in Dying. Lord Falconer, whose attempt to get assisted suicide legalised in the House of Lords failed last year, will be wobbling with rage that Keir Starmer QC, the Director of Public Prosecutions, has turned out not to be the Law Lords? poodle by undermining the Suicide Act 1961, with his assisted-suicide prosecution policy, published today.
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February 25th, 2010
Children as young as 12 should be taught about sex in school, it was claimed last night, after a Welsh county was shown to have the highest rate of teenage pregnancies in the UK.
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February 25th, 2010
Devon's teenage pregnancy rate has risen over the last decade despite a government pledge to halve it.
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February 25th, 2010
Labour?s flagship ?280 million strategy to cut the 'shameful' number of teenage pregnancies has failed, ministers admitted yesterday.
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February 25th, 2010
Europe, with a seemingly large immigrant Muslim population ? and not a well integrated one at that ? is having open discussion on what to do about women wearing total face-obscuring garments. It is one thing to wear a headscarf, which bothers secularists, but another thing altogether to have women wearing the Arab niqab or Afghan burka. Why should this be such an issue?