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| According to RSPCA figures, at least 100 pets are dumped by their owners every day. Reasons cited include the expense of looking after an animal; the owners find that they are too time consuming; or they gave birth to an unexpected litter. During its lifetime, a dog or cat could cost up to £10,000 for food, care and medical treatment. | |
| Environment | Pets4Homes.co.uk |
| Cosmopolitan has questioned Britain's leading sex and relationship experts about the effects of porn on today's relationships. Porn is becoming such a problem for some that 85% of experts think porn has had a negative effect on women’s confidence and 67% agree that women are under pressure to behave like porn stars in the bedroom. Psychosexual therapist Karen Lobb-Rossini says, “More and more young people (girls as well as boys) are learning about sex through porn, and it’s having a devastating effect on their perception of themselves and their bodies.” | |
| Sex | Cosmopolitan |
| Cosmopolitan has questioned Britain's leading sex and relationship experts about the effects of porn on today's relationships. 70% of men aged 18-34 admit to using porn at least once a month. Almost all of the therapists surveyed (94%) have seen an increase in incidents of porn addiction and 63% believe porn increases men’s expectations of sex with their partner. More and more men are suffering from performance anxiety because of the ‘impressive’ feats they see in porn, whilst women feel insecure about their bodies and feel pressured to ‘perform’. | |
| Sex | Cosmopolitan |
| Cosmopolitan has questioned Britain's leading sex and relationship experts about the effects of porn on today's relationships. Once deemed a relationship 'aid', 86% of those questioned believe porn has a negative effect on relationships and 90% have seen an increase in relationship problems due to porn in recent years. | |
| Sex | Cosmopolitan |
| ‘Sexting’ is increasingly becoming a part of every-day life for teenagers as young as 13, according to a new study by Channel 4, commissioned by the NSPCC. Sexting can be defined as, ‘The use of technology to share personal sexual content’, and the study highlights how mainstream and ‘mundane’ sexting has become. The key findings from the research included: the prevalence and mundanity of sexting; that young people do not feel teachers are there to care for them in this area; that pornography viewing is common among boys of this age. The report also discovered that Amanda Todd – the Canadian teenager who committed suicide as a consequence of abuse after self-generation – has had an impact on this age group. | |
| Young People | Youthwork, February 2013 |
| The number of children and young people arrested by police has dropped by a third since 2008, research has found. Figures obtained by the Howard League for Penal Reform show that there were 209,450 arrests of under-18s last year, compared to 315,923 in 2008 – a drop of 33.7 per cent. | |
| Young People | Youthwork, February 2013 |
| More than one in three young people in the UK are put off post-secondary training or education because of the perceived cost, a report has found. Young people in this country were far more likely to say that they were not interested in further education than respondents from other countries, according to an international report by Mckinsey and Company. | |
| Education | Youthwork, February 2013 |
| Saudi Arabia has introduced a tracking system that monitors any cross-border movements by female citizens following the case of a woman who apparently converted to Christianity and fled the country. Women are not permitted to leave Saudi Arabia without the permission of their male guardian (father, husband or other male relative), who must sign a consent form at the airport or border. The new measure alerts a woman’s guardian by text message when she leaves the country, even if they are travelling together. It has been reported by Saudi media that the introduction of the tracking system was triggered by the escape earlier this year of a woman from Al-Khobar who had apparently converted to Christianity. | |
| Religious Persecution | Life And Work, February 2013 |
| The decision to remove a temporary ban on hydraulic fracturing (‘fracking’) in the UK has been criticised by the Rev Sally Foster-Fulton, Convenor of the Church of Scotland’s Church and Society Council. Fracking is a technique in which high pressure liquid is injected into rock, causing fractures which enable the extraction of natural gas. It was halted in the UK in 2011, after it was blamed for minor earthquakes near test wells in the north west of England. Opponents are also concerned about the possibility of water pollution from the chemicals used. Ms Foster-Fulton said her concern was that fracking would merely prolong the country’s dependence on fossil fuels, instead of investing in renewables. | |
| Environment | Life And Work, February 2013 |
| In every US state, the proportion of families where children have two parents rather than one has dropped significantly over the past decade, according to a January 2 report. The number of two-parent households decreased by 1.2 million. 15 million children in the USA, or one in three, currently live without a father, compared to 1960, when just 11% of American children lived in homes without fathers. | |
| Family | Evangelicals Now, February 2013 |
| A ministry started by a former Planned Parenthood centre director is succeeding in helping abortion clinic workers leave the industry, it was reported in mid-December. And Then There Were None, started by Abby Johnson, has helped 38 workers leave the abortion business. Johnson worked as the clinic’s director for more than two years, leaving after witnessing the destruction of a 13-week-old unborn baby as part of an ultrasound-guided abortion she assisted in. | |
| Work/Employment | Evangelicals Now, February 2013 |
| A study, published in mid-December by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, showed that 84% of the world’s seven billion people adhere to some form of religion. However, while Christians and Muslims make up the two largest groups, those with no religious affiliation, including atheists and agnostics, are now the third largest ‘religious’ group in the world. | |
| Religion/Spirituality | Evangelicals Now, February 2013 |
| It was reported in late December that Belgium is considering allowing children and Alzheimer’s sufferers to ask to be euthanized. The proposed changes to the law were submitted by the Socialist Party. The draft legislation calls for ‘the law to be extended to minors if they are capable of discernment or affected by an incurable illness or suffering that we cannot alleviate’. | |
| Health | Evangelicals Now, February 2013 |
| Christian children’s worker Celestine Mba was, in November, told by an Employment Appeals Tribunal that her employer was justified in not accommodating her Christian observance of Sunday. The Employment Appeals Tribunal held that Sunday was not a ‘core’ component of the Christian faith because some Christians would be prepared to work on a Sunday, and thus Christians as a whole do not need Sunday protected. | |
| Religious Persecution | Evangelicals Now, February 2013 |
| The release in December of the divorce figures for 2012 from the Office for National Statistics showed that, after peaking in the 1990s, divorce rates are back at 1970s levels. The Marriage Foundation believes that this dip has nothing to do with fewer people getting married and everything to do with the way couples who do get married are taking it increasingly seriously. | |
| Social Issues | Evangelicals Now, February 2013 |
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