Family Education Trust regrets today’s High Court ruling against Mrs Sue Axon. The Trust’s Director, Norman Wells, commented: ‘We very much regret today’s judgement. It is only right and proper that parents of girls aged under 16 should be informed if their daughter is contemplating an abortion or any other major surgery or medical intervention. …
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Children’s Commissioners trespassing where they have no business
In their demand for a new law making it a criminal offence for parents to smack their children, the UK’s four children’s commissioners are championing a radical children’s rights agenda and not acting as the true champions of children, according to the Family Education Trust. The Trust’s Director, Norman Wells, commented: “The commissioners seem to …
FPA at odds with public opinion in driving wedge between children and parents
Today’s assertion by the fpa (formerly the Family Planning Association) that it is out of step with social changes over the past two decades to say that parents are the best judges of a child’s welfare shows the extent to which the organisation has been blinded by its own ideology to the strength of public …
Axon case highlights government’s mixed messages on the role of parents
Sue Axon’s High Court challenge to the government’s policy allowing underage girls to have an abortion without the knowledge or consent of their parents highlights the mixed messages being given out by ministers, according to Family Education Trust. After figures were published earlier in the year showing a rise in the number of conceptions to …
End the spin about sexual health and tell the truth about safe sex
Download Leaflet Leading GP calls for a more radical approach to address the sexual health crisis Sexually transmitted infection (STI) rates in the UK continue to climb inexorably in spite of increasing condom provision and education. Recent figures from the Health Protection Agency showed a further increase in the number of diagnoses in Genito-Urinary Medicine …