Increase in parents seeking advice about leaving children home alone over summer holidays
The NSPCC are urging parents to think carefully about whether their child is ready to be left home alone over the summer holidays. For working parents, July and August can be particularly difficult as they’re forced to try and balance the competing pressures of work and childcare. For some, these challenges are likely to be […]
Parental alienation: Is it still an alien concept?
Although parental alienation was first recognised by Wallerstein and Kelly in 1976, the concept gained controversy when Gardner suggested that parental alienation is actually a mental condition suffered by children who had been alienated by their mothers. Subsequently, parental alienation became a term which was rejected by English and Welsh courts. However, the idea that […]