To my mind the most important development in social policy in recent times wasn’t any innovation in public services. It was the re-discovery (in the words of the title of Sue Gerhardt’s groundbreaking book) of ‘Why Love Matters’. Gerhardt and others, such as Felicity de Zulueta of The Maudsley Hospital and Camila Batmanghelidjh of Kids Company, have demonstrated how our early experience of relationships literally shapes our brain, and so conditions the personality we present to the world.
In the News
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August 22nd, 2011
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August 21st, 2011Colorado's Supreme Court is being asked to stop abortion funding, even though it's already in the state's constitution.
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August 21st, 2011THOUSANDS of desperate childless couples have been left in limbo after the world’s first IVF lottery was suspended.
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August 21st, 2011Anthony Ozimic, SPUC's communications manager, has authored a new paper entitled "The past, present and possible future of stem cell research". It is written as an introduction to stem cell research for anyone as yet unfamiliar with the subject. Do the read it in full on the SPUC website and share with anyone who think may benefit it from it. Anthony writes:
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August 21st, 2011Former Liberal Democrat leader Sir Menzies Campbell has warned the prime minister against "watering down" the UK's commitment to human rights.
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August 20th, 2011One of Britain’s leading QC’s yesterday backed calls for the planned anti sectarian law to be put on hold amid claims the legislation is unnecessary and unworkable.
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August 20th, 2011Two days after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, smoke was still rising from the twisted and burnt material that used to be the World Trade Center. Untold numbers of first responders from around the country were converging on New York City to help look for survivors trapped in the rubble, and the nation as a whole was still somewhere between fear and unmitigated anger: somewhere between “woe is me” and “woe is thee.”
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August 20th, 2011Beyond the obvious obligation we have as thinking human beings to clarify the status, and defend the value, of innocent, unborn human life, engaging in the pro-life project is also a way to make the case for the truth of Christianity in general. It stands to reason that if the scientific, philosophical, and moral arguments we offer in defense of the humanity of the unborn also happen to align exactly with the biblical notion of what it means to be a human being made "in the image of God," then the Bible might also have something to say about other things of importance.
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August 19th, 2011More Christians have been harmed in Pakistan, continuing an all-too-frequent occurrence.
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August 19th, 2011new York, NY (LifeNews/CFAM) — A new book has raised hackles among abortion advocates about just how much the UN Population Fund is to blame for more than 160 million missing girls in Asia: aborted in the quest for sons.
