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The same sex parent debate is not about parenting but about missing parents

July 20, 2016 Written by Mental Health , Personal Health , Sex and relationships

  ‘Talk to any child with gay parents, especially those old enough to reflect on their experiences. If you ask a child raised by a lesbian couple if they love their two moms, you’ll probably get a resounding “yes!” Ask about their father, and you […]

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Let’s invest more in relationships

May 18, 2016 Written by Mental Health , Personal Health

This week is Mental Health Awareness Week. The Mental Health Foundation are focusing this year on the need for relationships to help improve mental health. They tell us that we urgently need a greater focus on the quality of our relationships, to prevent and help […]

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Organ donation – Giving the gift of life

December 23, 2015 Written by Christianity , Personal Health

Two CMF members are using the Christmas season to share a special message about God’s love. As Christians get ready to celebrate the birth of Jesus, Justin Thacker and Simon Howell are using their experiences to ask others to share Christ’s love and service in […]

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How safe is the school cancer vaccination for young girls?

June 5, 2015 Written by New Technologies , Personal Health , Sex and relationships

  New reports (including on the front page of the Independent) are adding to the evolving story of inadequate research on a vaccine that almost every teenage girl in the UK will have been given since 2008. News that (apparently) thousands of young girls have […]

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Talking about death – the importance of openness about one of life’s certainties

May 13, 2014 Written by End of Life , Personal Health

About two thirds of the way into Alexander Payne’s 2011 film The Descendants, Matt King (played by George Clooney) walks calmly into the hospital room of his comatose wife, Elizabeth. He closes the door gently and then proceeds to excoriate her for controlling and messing […]