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Why having two children can provide a Father’s Day pay bonusBeing a parent can dramatically alter salaries – but new IPPR research also shows that the effect depends on where you live and how many children you have
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Ten of the best films about fathersFrom Darth Vader to Nemo, via the Godfather and Atticus Finch classics to enjoy on Father’s Day -
Family life: My devoted grandparents, Gone Fishing by Chris Rea and honey cakeReaders’ favourite photographs, songs and recipes -
Work has put my name down for a mindfulness courseThen I tell them what I’ve been through in the past 12 months …
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I was a refugee – nobody wants to leave their homeWhat’s the difference between a refugee family and your family? Luck – that’s all, says Arta Dobroshi, an actress and film-maker who lived in a camp after fleeing Kosovo as a teenager, an experience that inspired her new film
opinion
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The Child Maintenance Service, which is replacing the CSA, isn’t working, with far too many fathers abdicating their responsibilities. And yet there is no outcryWhy the silence on the scandal of unpaid child maintenance?
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Please, can we stop telling women when to have babies?They don’t need to be shamed into hurrying up by experts like Gillian Lockwood. And being part of the ‘sandwich generation’ isn’t that bad – I know
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Apparently progressive legislation is being undercut by slashed budgets, pitting councils against parents – and opening up a market for opportunistic lawyersChildren with disabilities need more educational support, not mockery
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'I'm gonna die' is a text no mother wants to receive. Mine always feared she wouldEvery time the phone rang late at night, every time a police car went too slowly past the house, I know my mother worried for me, her gay son
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My OCD reared its ugly head when I tried to come off medication to start a familyTrying to keep my unborn child from possible harm made me very ill. I learned the hard way that I don’t have a choice, but I accept that now
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Fern Britton is wrong. The key to a healthy relationship that benefits the children is how disagreements are handled, not whether they existWhy arguing in front of the kids isn’t good for them – or you
advice
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Dear MariellaDear MariellaMy ex-wife is angry that I’m happy with my new partnerA twice-divorced man wants his children and partner to be together at family occasions. Mariella Frostrup says a harmoniously blended family is something that needs to be worked at
love & sex
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I have fetishes for feet and tickling but my girlfriend won’t play alongWhile my partner hasn’t rejected me, she feels feet are inherently unhygienic and won’t let me worship her as I would like. Are there any ways I can change her mind?
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My ex-wife is angry that I’m happy with my new partnerA twice-divorced man wants his children and partner to be together at family occasions. Mariella Frostrup says a harmoniously blended family is something that needs to be worked at
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Blind date: I was hoping to find ‘the one’Aidan, 23, primary school teacher and Padraig, 27, journalist
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Our baby was due in six months. Then my girlfriend said she'd met another manAfter 11 years together he was looking forward to parenthood with the woman he loved. So he was shocked to the core when she told him there was someone else. Was the baby even his?
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Don’t laugh at May Ashworth and her old-fashioned, formal usage of Google, nor anyone who marries a rock or apologises to a kicked chair. It’s all perfectly rationalSaying please and thank you to objects is nothing to be embarrassed about
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Every day millions of internet users ask Google life’s most difficult questions, big and small. Our writers answer some of the commonest queriesAm I going to be single for ever? You asked Google – here’s the answer
A trip never taken: a mission to find my mother brought me closer to my father