Both women in lesbian couples with children should be given compulsory paternity and maternity leave, under proposals tabled in the European Parliament.
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April 17th, 2009
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April 17th, 2009
Far-right Dutch MP Geert Wilders's followup to Fitna is to focus on the impact of Muslim immigration on Europe and the US.
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April 17th, 2009
It seems grossly unfair that the State must support people whose lifestyle choices make them unable to work, says Max Pemberton.
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April 17th, 2009
A leader of a radical Muslim group which Tony Blair promised to ban four years ago has called on followers to support "jihad" against Israel at a rally in London.
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April 17th, 2009
Successive governments are to blame for the demise of the traditional family. It will take a brave politician to save it now, says Kathy Gyngell
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April 17th, 2009
PARAMEDICS are being ordered not to resuscitate patients who want to die after a serious accident, the Standard can reveal today.
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April 16th, 2009
Women are more likely to give birth before they turn 25 than get married, according to official statistics that illustrate how British family life has been transformed in a generation.
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April 16th, 2009
Women aged 25 are now more likely to have had a child than to be married. The latest landmark in the decline of marriage was uncovered yesterday in Social Trends, the annual snapshot of the nation by the Office for National Statistics.
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April 16th, 2009
The share of the population that lives alone has doubled since the 1970s, the annual official portrait of Britain said.
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April 16th, 2009
Teams of behaviour experts will be sent into schools in England where behaviour is rated as merely "satisfactory", Schools' Secretary Ed Balls has said.