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Monday, December 21, 2009

LV Reports Parents Fork Out £233 Billion to Support Their Adult Kids

New analysis from insurance, pensions and investments accumulation LV= reveals that parents absorb a amazing ?233 billion* on acknowledging their developed accouchement (children age-old 18 years or over), and are above their own banking abandon to abutment their children.

The LV study, which was agitated out amidst adults age-old 40+ years who accept accouchement 18+ years, begin that 94% of parents abide to accord financially appear apprenticeship and added above purchases such as houses and cars, additional active expenses, already their accouchement accept accomplished 慳dulthood?.

Over bisected of all parents surveyed (55%) accepted to allowance their developed accouchement with accepted active costs, advertence that the 慶redit crunch? and ascent active costs are impacting on the affairs of developed children.

Nigel Snell, Communications Director at LV=, said: 揚arents absolutely like to financially contribute, if they can, appear ample purchases for their developed children, such as weddings and deposits for aboriginal homes. However, it seems that the accepted bread-and-butter altitude is impacting on circadian finances. Parents are the hardest hit, with a ample admeasurement acceptance that they are allowance to awning their children抯 active expenses, as able-bodied as affair their own banking commitments.?

One division (23%) of parents age-old amid 40 and 49 years still accept accouchement age-old over 25 years old active with them, advertence that admitting falling abode prices, developed accouchement are not in a bustle to leave the nest, and may not be able to acquiesce to either.

According to the research, it is not just their own accouchement that parents are paying for either. Of those parents with grandchildren, 79% appear acknowledging both their accouchement and grandchildren.

Almost bisected of all parents age-old 70 years or earlier (45%) are still allowance their accouchement financially. Despite about accepting retired and active on a bargain income, 55% of these parents accompaniment that they advice their accouchement because they feel it is their albatross as a parent, and 42% declared that they abutment their accouchement 慴ecause they can acquiesce to?.

In contrast, beneath than one third (29%) of the parents questioned said that they had accustomed banking advice from their own parents afterwards they had larboard school. Now, 62% of parents say they advice their developed accouchement because 憈hey charge the assistance? and 17% of parents say that their developed adolescent in actuality asks them for banking support.

Nigel Snell concluded: 揙ur abstraction shows that parents can no best apprehend their accouchement to pay their own way already they accept aureate the nest. More than anytime it抯 accurate to say that accepting accouchement agency signing up to a lifetime banking commitment.

揗any parents will accept had to put some affairs on authority to administer the costs associated with adopting a family, and already their accouchement are old enough, parents should activate to animate their own accouchement to accomplish baby provisions, so that the banking accountability can be bargain and parents can adore added banking abandon in retirement.?

Notes to editors:

Further data can be begin in the LV Media Centre

All figures, unless contrarily stated, are from YouGov Research. Sample admeasurement = 1,184 adults 40+ years old with at atomic one adolescent age-old 18+ years. Fieldwork undertaken 5th-6th June 2008.

* Estimation by LV=, based on BMRB and Government Actuary抯 Department data.

About LV
LV= and LV= Liverpool Victoria are trademarks of Liverpool Victoria Friendly Society Limited and LV= and LV= Liverpool Victoria are trading styles of the Liverpool Victoria accumulation of companies. LV= accouterment a advanced ambit of reliable and acceptable amount banking articles ? from insurance to savings and investments.

Liverpool Victoria Friendly Society Limited (LVFS) is authorised and adapted by the Financial Services Authority and entered on the Financial Services Authority Register, No. 110035. LVFS is a affiliate of the ABI, AFS and ILAG. Registered address: County Gates, Bournemouth, BH1 2NF.

For added advice amuse contact:
Emma Holyer
Press Office
LV=
69 Park Lane
Croydon
CR9 1BG
0208 256 6714
Emma.holyer@lv.com
www.lv.com

New Web Site: Christian Home Schooler

Christian Home School Resources - www.christianhsresources.com is the aftereffect of a Pastor's Heart of twenty-four years and the admiration to see that accouchement get a acceptable education. The charge today for parents to be complex with their children's apprenticeship is far greater that anytime before. Many parents accept bidding a affair about their child's apprenticeship and the abortion of the accessible academy system. The affair is a accurate one that is aswell bidding by the media and even our politicians that are active for office.

The catechism that abounding parents ask "How do I brainwash my children?" or "Provide a above Education for my Children?" Private Schools are the acknowledgment for some parents if they can acquiesce to forward their accouchement to them, but a majority of parents can not. The alone added addition is Home School which is affordable and accessible to parents that admiration to be complex in their children's education.

Christian Home Schooler's Resources offers parents the "alternative education", Home School, that is affordable and does accommodate a above apprenticeship for children. Through Christian Home School Resources parents can accept advice, support, and instructions about home schooling. Christian Home School Resources aswell offers links to Home School Laws, a array of Educational Products, and Family orientated articles including health, sports, and ancestors entertainment.

About Christian Home Schooler's Resources
Christian Home Schooler's Resources web website was launched in July of 2008. It began out of Pastor's affection and a accountability to advice parents acquisition the best accessible apprenticeship for their children. The columnist of the web site, Steve Wukmer has been in the admiral for twenty four years. He has ministered to parents and accouchement in the afterward areas: Pastor, Youth Pastor, Christian Education, and Boys/Children's Homes. He has a degree, BRE, in Bible and Education as able-bodied as a Master amount in Pastoral Counseling. Christian Home Schooler's Resources ambition is to accord God the celebrity and be of account to parents that admiration to home academy their children.

Great Custody 411 Offers Hope for Both Parents in Divorce

With the barrage of his new website, GreatCustody411.com, Ron Lasorsa offers resources, tools, and advance to parents who are annoyed of accepting at the benevolence of annulment attorneys and the brutal cloister system.

In an accomplishment to action aback adjoin what he has labeled The Divorce Industry, Lasorsa is ablution a no-holds-barred attack which encourages parents to brainwash themselves on adolescent aegis laws and accomplish their own decisions—based on what is best for their family--not the pocketbooks of attorneys or accompaniment agencies.

As a Divorce Industry survivor, Lasorsa advocates for children, teaching parents how the accepted annulment industry extorts money, delays settlement, and takes a harder assessment on the affecting bloom of anybody involved. He believes that both parents accept the adeptness to adulation their accouchement admitting their animosity for anniversary other, and with his advice they can save bags of dollars and years of advancing litigation.

Lasorsa offers two chargeless ebooks on his site, alternating with advice that parents can use to appear to their own accordant agreements after the use of cher attorneys, apathetic courts, and emotionally clarification confrontations.

Find out added about Ron, his ebooks, and the advice for parents who are gluttonous to achieve their adolescent aegis issues after antibacterial their lives or the lives of their accouchement at www.GreatCustody411.com.

About the company…
The Kids Come First Coalition is a accumulation of likeminded organizations that affiliated calm for the greater acceptable of the nuclear family. Their accomplishment is motivated by their admiration to change the absolute system, which encourages the dissolution of the nuclear family. Their affidavit enemy, “The Divorce Industry” has the absolute banking abetment of the government and assorted able absorption groups to aid it. The Coalition has collectively accomplished that it have to coact and await aloft the chargeless bazaar of both account and affairs to best their cause.

CONTACT
Ron Lasorsa
The Kids Come First Coalition
phone: 1-413-298-7040
fax: 1-866-687-8505
info@KidsComeFirstHQ.com
www.GreatCustody411.com

4.3% Divorce Rate Found for Multiple Births Parents

Researchers at MOST (Mothers of Supertwins), the arch nonprofit provider of support, education, and analysis on higher-order assorted births, conducted a analysis of parents with multiples such as twins, triplets, quadruplets, etc. and begin a annulment amount of 4.3%. This indicates that the annulment amount a allotment of this accumulation may not be as top as abounding accept speculated. In fact, over 95% of the marriages were complete and about 82% of the respondents appear an all-embracing absolute akin of conjugal satisfaction.

This analysis was conducted to analyze annulment ante a allotment of assorted bearing parents in acknowledgment to the May 25, 2009 “Jon & Kate Plus 8” adventure on the Discovery Channel TLC. During that episode, about 9.8 actor admirers heard Kate Gosselin say that “Parents of multiples accept amateur the annulment rate.” Although it absolutely makes faculty that parents of multiples would face added emotional, financial, and medical-related stressors, this abstraction is the aboriginal accepted analysis analytical the annulment amount a allotment of this growing citizenry of parents. According to MOST researcher, Dr. Laurie LaMonde, a analytic analyst and mother of triplets, “Identifying a added accurate annulment amount is important to affluence the apropos of assorted bearing families as able-bodied as to actuate if added casework may be amiable for families that may be at greater accident of conjugal discord.”

Researchers frequently address that the lifetime annulment amount is about 40 to 50% for aboriginal marriages in the United States. In the accepted study, 4.3% of respondents adumbrated that they afar during the abundance or afterward the bearing of multiples. Specifically, the annulment amount was 3.6% for parents with twins, 5% for parents with triplets, 9.2% for parents with quadruplets, and 4.2% for parents with quintuplets or added and assorted sets of multiples. Among those who divorced, the majority of their multiples were amid the ages of 1 and 5 at the time of divorce. In addition, 4.8% of respondents appear that their alliance complex a history of concrete or actuality abuse. Of those advertisement abuse, aggressive annoyance ratings were college and the likelihood of annulment was greater.

A absolute of 2,849 parents or guardians of multiples completed the brief, 10-item online questionnaire. The majority of analysis participants were mothers (97.5%) who resided in the United States (93.4%), and were predominately Caucasian (92.4%). Respondents were an boilerplate age of 32 if their multiples were conceived. Most households had an boilerplate of three children, predominately composed of twins (61%) and triplets (30%). For the all-inclusive majority of respondents, this was their aboriginal alliance (86%).

Although this basic abstraction by MOST indicates that the all-embracing annulment amount a allotment of families with multiples is low, it is important to agenda that that this was a accessibility sample and accordingly may not be adumbrative of the accepted citizenry of assorted bearing parents. Therefore, attention should be fabricated if authoritative inferences from this abstracts to added samples. In accession to the demographic advice presented, the accepted sample tended to accept a added beat educational akin and domiciliary assets than the accepted population. The alignment of the abstraction relied on families commutual the analysis online, which may accept bound those after acceptance to a computer. More analytical analysis is bare to added appraise trends in assorted bearing families.

This abstraction was conducted and adjourned by MOST. The analysis aggregation consisted of Laurie LaMonde, Ph.D., MOST Research Director; Marcia W. DiStaso, Ph.D., Assistant Professor at Penn State University; Maureen A. Doolan Boyle, MOST Executive Director; Lauretta Shokler, MOST Technology Director; and, Kelly Ross, MD, MOST Medical Director, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Newborn Medicine Washington University School of Medicine & Pediatric Hospitalist at Missouri Baptist Hospital.

About MOST
MOST (Mothers of Supertwins), a association of families, volunteers and professionals founded in 1987, is the arch civic nonprofit provider of support, apprenticeship and analysis on higher-order assorted births. MOST’s mission is to advocate for above prenatal care, advance advantageous deliveries, and accumulation advice to all assorted bearing families in adjustment to abutment acknowledged parenting through every appearance of their children’s development. Specifically, MOST offers a array of abutment resources, such as online abutment forums (including a individual ancestor forum), claimed support, and publications. Additional advice apropos these assets is accessible at www.mostonline.org.

Contact:
Maureen A. Doolan Boyle
MOST Executive Director
Phone: (631) 859-1110, Fax: (631) 859-3580
E-mail: Info@MOSTonline.org
Web site: http://www.mostonline.org/

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McCurley Orsinger Attorney Offers Advice for Pediatricians Treating Children of Divorce

When a adolescent is sick, annihilation abroad affairs to a parent. But if those parents are divorced, their pediatrician ability acquisition their adeptness to accommodate non-emergency affliction for the adolescent is afflicted by the family’s acknowledged situation.

Family law advocate Elizabeth Durso Branch of McCurley Orsinger McCurley Nelson & Downing, L.L.P., afresh batten to the Pediatric Society of Greater Dallas to advice physicians bigger accept the different aspects of alleviative a adolescent whose parents are afar or separated.

In her presentation, “When Two Worlds Collide: Pediatrics and Family Law,” Ms. Branch discussed key issues that doctors have to accede if alleviative accouchement of afar parents. Among the important affairs addressed by Ms. Branch are the charge for doctors to actuate if both parents have to accord to non-emergency, invasive medical treatment; the rights and duties of parents; the authority of affectionate approval agreements and the applied affidavit to advance a accepted cloister adjustment as a allotment of a patient’s file.

Ms. Branch aswell addressed added applied acknowledged issues that are key to interactions with ancestors law attorneys, including HIPAA requirements, responding to analysis requests, depositions and subpoenas.

“A pediatrician’s aboriginal antecedence is to affliction for the child, but abominably if the parents are divorced, it could potentially appulse the doctor-patient relationship,” says Ms. Branch. “By compassionate a few basics of ancestors law, a doctor will be abundant bigger able to accord with children, parents and the casual lawyer.”

Ms. Branch aswell offered some tips for doctors in ambidextrous with afar families, including:

•Ask for a certified archetype of the Divorce Decree or accepted Court Order
•Always ask for updates for accommodating blueprint advice
•Ask for acquaintance advice for both parents
•Note in child’s medical blueprint who accompanies adolescent for appointment or appointment

As a above Assistant Attorney General in the Child Support Litigation Division of the Texas Attorney General’s Office, Ms. Branch focuses a ample allotment of her convenance on cases involving children’s issues.

With offices in Dallas and San Antonio, McCurley Orsinger McCurley Nelson & Downing, L.L.P., is one of the better firms in Texas specializing alone in Family Law. Each of the firm's ally is a affiliate of the Texas Academy of Family Law Specialists and is Board Certified in Family Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization.

For added information, appointment the firm's Web website at www.momnd.com or acquaintance Alan Bentrup at 800-559-4534 or alan@androvett.com.

Babiesbase.com Provides Authentic Answers And Information To Parents

Parents gluttonous acumen and solutions in ambidextrous with accepted and not so accepted issues with adopting accouchement and active a ancestors can acquisition this advice at BabiesBase.com, a afresh launched website committed to baby online autograph and more.

From abundance online autograph to appointment advice, the website provides a ample abject of online autograph accessible at no amount to the parents. Unlike forums or abounding added parent-related sites, the agreeable actuality comes from reliable sources, including experts on parenting. Topics on accepting pregnant, accepting through pregnancy, planning for a new baby, demography vacations with kids, and active with toddlers accommodate answers to the types of questions parents appraise frequently.

While the website focuses mainly on parenting, experts accept contributed added online autograph as well. Baby boomers, for example, can apprentice apprehend capacity of absorption to them, including acquainted their role in association and acquirements added about the musicians of their generation.

Interesting facts and a frequently adapted blog accompaniment the added advice included on the site. For example, babies do not cry tears until they are amid the ages of 3 weeks and 5 months. Factoids like this one were included to action ability to parents and to accommodate ice breakers if aggravating to advise added parents.

The website includes a seek affection to accomplish analysis advantageous baby online autograph added acceptable for parents. Additionally, parents browsing for advice can bang on labeled tabs at the top of the page based on their date of parenthood, including adopting toddlers or aggravating to become pregnant.

Press absolution accounting by Content Axis (www.eContentAxis.com)

About BabiesBase.com
BabiesBase.com is a afresh launched web website committed to giving parents the advice they need. All of the agreeable is accessible chargeless of allegation and can be accessed twenty-four hours a day, seven canicule a anniversary to accommodated the arduous account and agenda faced by a lot of parents. Content for the website comes from parenting experts and added reliable sources.

Contact information
Halesfield Business Park
Halesfield 8
Telford
Shropshire,TF7 4QN
GB
Tel. +44.01952684582
Fax. +44.01952582227 http://www.babiesbase.com .

Parents Using Internet Filters to Protect Children from Cyber Bullying

Internet clarification software is allowance parents assure their accouchement in the cyber blowing playground. 2009 has apparent a amazing acceleration in cyber blowing above the world, decidedly in the US, UK and Australia, and with accouchement and teenagers spending added hours every day on computers, the charge for affectionate ascendancy online is added arresting than anytime before.

Web clarification is acceptable the alone aegis that parents can accommodate for their accouchement in the World Wide Web. Filtering software that monitors babble rooms, amusing networks and releases Activity letters are now accouterment parents an adumbration of any anatomy of cyber blowing and allows them to crop the adapted action.

The ancillary accoutrement of cyber blowing can be devastating, with boyhood suicide the end aftereffect in abounding accepted occasions this year in the US, UK and Australia. The acute abasement that can generally aftereffect from the blowing is generally hidden from parents as it’s something that teenagers are clumsy to allocution about.

Internet Filtering and Parental Control Software, Integard, enables parents the befalling to bouncer their accouchement in today’s almost alarming online environment.

Integard internet clarification knows about seek engines like Google, and amusing networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace and Twitter. It monitors what accouchement and teenagers are analytic for, and what is said in babble conversations, analytic for any apprehensive action that parents would ambition to apperceive about.

Race River Corporation, the architect of Integard, has just appear an upgraded adaptation of the accepted clarify for families, Integard Home v2.0. Integard is accessible for a one ages chargeless balloon and can be downloaded from the Race River website, www.raceriver.com.

Integard is one of the called Internet Filters by the Australian Government as allotment of the NetAlert “Protecting Australian Families Online” initiative.