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Irish ‘kinship carers’ say they have long struggled to get the back-up offered to foster parents
Irish ‘kinship carers’ say they have long struggled to get the back-up offered to foster parents
Nearly 3,500 women contacted a domestic violence service for the first time during the initial lockdown; is this lockdown any better?
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Unmarried fathers in Ireland do not have automatic guardianship rights
Changes to One Parent Family Payment intended to activate recipients into labour market
Concern over lack of provision for a central register of guardianship declarations
Lone-parent organisations and lawyers join call for changes to adoption legislation
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In the 1930s and 1940s grandparents were thought to exert a ‘pernicious’ influence on their progeny
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