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  • Marriage Foundation: Marriage rates collapse among middle classes
    August 24th, 2015
    The middle classes are turning their backs on marriage in their droves, Marriage Foundation has found. 

    New analysis of data from the Family Resources Survey and the General Household Survey shows that the trend away from marriage was largely confined to low income groups prior to the 1990s but is now spreading to families on middle incomes.
     
    Whereas the vast majority (84 per cent) of middle earning families with young children were still marrying in 1994, only 59 per cent were married in 2012, a drop of 25 per cent over 18 years.
     
    Among mothers with children under five, the proportion of middle earners who married has fallen faster than any other income group.
  • Telegraph: Religious education is being 'watered down', argues Church of England
    August 23rd, 2015

    Changes to the GCSE system are creating a “moral vacuum” which is fuelling extremism, the chief education officer of the Church of England has said as he argues that religious education is being “watered down”.

  • Marriage Foundation: Marriage inequality between rich and poor soars to all-time high
    August 23rd, 2015
    New data analysed by Marriage Foundation shows an alarming widening of the marriage gap between rich and poor.
     
    Marriage Foundation found mothers with young children are four times more likely to be married if they are wealthy than if they are poor.
     
    Among mothers with children under five, Marriage Foundation research has found 87 per cent of those with household incomes over £45,000 are married compared to 24 per cent of those with incomes under £14,000.
     
    Other social indicators such as education and housing status also indicate a stark gap between uptake of marriage for the most privileged and the least.
  • Breitbart: Book designed to teach LGBT awareness to young children distributed to English schools
    August 22nd, 2015

    A new book aimed at teaching junior schools children about same sex marriage is to be distributed to schools across England, and translated into Welsh. Prince Henry tells the tale of a young prince who decides to marry his servant, Thomas, despite his parents’ objections that it is against the law as Thomas “is poor”, and therefore “not equal.”

  • BBC: Rise in over-18s staying at home with foster families
    August 22nd, 2015
    More vulnerable young people in England are choosing to stay with their foster families past the age of 18, the government says.
     
    New rules brought in last year require councils to support children who stay on with their foster parents.
     
    Children and Families Minister Edward Timpson said the scheme had already been a "spectacular success".
     
    Council leaders said they were committed to the changes but warned of a funding shortfall.
  • Times (£): Christians ‘under pressure’ in politics
    August 22nd, 2015
    Politicians with strong Christian beliefs come under pressure to hide their faith in public, an SNP MSP has claimed.
     
    Dave Thompson, the MSP for Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch, spoke out before a Fringe event that he is taking part in tomorrow in Edinburgh.
     
    Mr Thompson said that his Christian faith was a core part of who he was and it would be dishonest not to let his constituents know about it. However, he added that it was not always easy to be overtly Christian in politics.
  • Guardian: White House confirms key Isis leader killed in US air strike
    August 21st, 2015

    The second-in-command of the Islamic State militant group was killed during a US air strike in Iraq on Tuesday, the White House said on Friday, dealing a blow to the group that has sought to form a caliphate in the Middle East.

  • Life News: 8th Shocking Video - StemExpress CEO Admits Planned Parenthood Sells Fully Intact Aborted Babies
    August 21st, 2015
    Just a short time after a judge issued a ruling that the biotech firm StemExpress can’t block the Center for Medical Progress from releasing another video that shows what it does with aborted babies Planned Parenthood sells to it, the pro-life group put up a preview of the 8th video in its series showing the scandal of Planned Parenthood selling aborted baby body parts . . ..

    In the video, Cate Dyer, the CEO of StemExpress, is shown in a lunch meeting with undercover operatives posing as representatives of a biotech firm. Dyer is laughing about how StemExpress purchases fully intact aborted babies from Planned Parenthood. She laughs about how shippers of the aborted babies would give a warning to lab workers to expect such a baby.
     
     
  • Anscombe Bioethics Centre: Assisted suicide and euthanasia - A guide to the evidence
    August 21st, 2015

    In response to Rob Marris' assisted suicide bill, the Anscombe Bioethics Centre has produced ‘Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia: A Guide to the Evidence’. Evidence from jurisdictions that have embraced physician assisted suicide or euthanasia shows that these practices are out of control with numbers of cases increasing year on year.

  • Christian Today: Senior lawyers launch devastating critique on church law reform plans
    August 20th, 2015
    Senior church lawyers have issued a devastating critique of plans to reform established Church law by a radical process of deregulation.
     
    They have condemned the proposals as "inchoate" and urged the Archbishops of Canterbury and York "not to pander to the false narrative that law is a malign force which stifles the mission of the Church."
     
    They have also raised fears that the proposals represent an attempt "to move legislative authority" away from the General Synod, the Church's parliament, and to the Archbishops' Council, the policy body at the heart of Church management.