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How can dads and daughters reconnect after a divorce? Marie Linner/Shutterstock.com

July 11, 2017

How daughters can repair a damaged relationship with their divorced dad

Linda Nielsen, Wake Forest University

Daughters across the US feel like their relationship with their father was damaged by their parents' divorce. Here are steps daughters can take to repair that relationship.

December 20, 2016

Half a century of homelessness in the UK – here’s what has changed

Graham Bowpitt, Nottingham Trent University

In 1966, the BBC drama Cathy Come Home radically changed the way society thinks about homelessness. So how would Cathy fare today?

Families going through breakdown need understanding, but so do lawmakers trying to find fair outcomes from complex laws. Shutterstock

June 1, 2016

No simple solution when families meet the law

Renata Alexander, Monash University

Adding to the trauma of a relationship breaking down, families can find themselves caught in a tangle of state and commonwealth laws.

How can parents who no longer live together continue to raise their children? via www.shutterstock.com

November 12, 2014

Child custody - parental rights vs the child’s best interest

J Herbie DiFonzo, Hofstra University

The November 2014 elections included a North Dakota voter initiative emblematic of the vigorous debate taking place nationwide about child custody. The “Parental Rights Initiative” required courts to award…