Family

For years now, it’s been said that genealogy is the ‘new gardening’. We at Birthlink can certainly testify to this. Adoption obviously raises questions and challenges concerning family history. Nobody wants to live in the belief that their family tree doesn’t go upwards any further than their mother and father.

Janet Christie’s Mum’s the Word

Should smacking a child be against the law? That’s the fierce debate reaching a vital stage in Scotland at present, where the parliament’s equalities commitee is considering whether it will back legislation to make smacking a criminal offence, writes law lecturer Tracy Kirk.

One of Scotland’s largest employers is set to introduce a groundbreaking shared leave scheme ensuring parents will have time to spend with new family members before returning to work.

Do we do enough for our carers? Recognising and celebrating Scotland’s carers is challenging. Not least because many don’t recognise or identify as ‘carers’.

We are the total of what has happened to us during our lives. The people we’ve met, the memories we’ve made, the things that have inspired us and the things that have been difficult.

It’s parental payback time

Home insurance – done; car insurance – done; guardians for children – not sure what to do….

The rise in the number of food bank is already ­symbolic of our failing social security system. Yet the appalling scale of this unfolding human tragedy in a ­country as rich as Scotland is only now becoming clear.

Time for a cunning plan to get the jobs done

Brexit has nothing on this kitchen sink drama

My name is Annabelle Mcpherson and I’m a recovering alcoholic.

Unwelcome reception

A Scottish adoption charity is to target popular LGBT nightclubs for the first time in a bid to encourage more single people to adopt and foster.

As social attitudes are changing, Sarah Devine proposes that a couple’s freedom to choose how, when and where to wed should be celebrated.

Family lawyers do not just deal with families who are separating, but also in assisting those who wish to create or expand their family.

Turning down the heat on smotherlove

Police are urging parents to check the privacy settings on popular video app TikTok, after concerns sexual predators are using the video platform to target children.