| Human Law Ezine - April 2014 Please take a look at my latest posts: - Celebrity Couple Split Amicably (Thus Far) - Are We Living In The Era of The Responsible Divorcee?
So according to media reports, the celebrity couple, Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin will end their marriage amicably ... in part (mainly, maybe) because they do not want to be entwined in legal documents, the finances or the PR damage. They also may have genuine concerns about the other and for their children. To me on the outside, the attempt at an amicable breakup looks genuine, rather than superficial.
With respect to us mere mortals, in her latest book, Dr Penelope Leach Family Breakdown: Helping Children to Hang on to Both Parents, to be published in June, advocates two enmity-free households, working together, to make the best of a bad job for children when their parents opt to go their separate ways...
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- Human Rights of the Elderly Is On The Agenda - Our Attitude is Changing
If you keep reading your newspapers you will see increasing stories of individuals being abused within the care homes.
For example, it was just reported that the sickening behaviour of two care assistants in a private care home. Rita Page and Lynette Crook, two carers at Priory Highbank hospital in Greater Manchester, were secretly filmed slapping, jabbing and taunting a brain-damaged man as he lay groaning in his bed. They face jail after they pleaded guilty to charges of ill treatment of the patient, who was being cared for in the £3,000-a-week specialist facility...
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