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Families Need Fathers - Registered Charity with support, legal and other resources for UK fathers.
Gingerbread - A registered charity for the support of lone parents in Britain, run by lone parents. Includes links to regional groups, and summaries in a range of community languages.
UK Men and Father's Rights - UK Men and Father's Rights Home Page including statistics and support for fathers.
PITY II - Parents who have Interred Their Young Twice - Support and information for families whose children are involved in the organ retention issues at Alder Hey, Liverpool, and around the UK.
CareZone - UK based resource for parents and children, offers help and information about issues concerning the changing family. Includes a problem page that children can write to.
Family Futures - Provides information for children, young people, families, professionals and organisations in order to help them with planning and problem solving when facing choices and changes. Contact addresses also included.
One Parent Families Scotland - Information, links and resources for single parents in Scotland.
Home-Start - Family support organisation with branches across the country. Information about services for families with at least one child under five, and for those who want to support (with a donation, or as a volunteer).
National Council for One Parent Families - Helpdesk, factfiles, news and details of how you can get involved with this registered charity.
National Childbirth Trust - Offers support in pregnancy, childbirth and early parenthood. Includes details of services, and a substantial collection of online information.
Families of Murdered Children - Offers support for families and friends of a murder victim. Details of service, fundraising and support line.
FNF Norwich - Families Need Fathers Norwich branch Local information for non resident parents in Norwich and Norfolk.
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If she says she would like to go out with the Dallas Cowboys, including the coachin As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. "We're an embarrasment to college graduates across America." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. - Aristotle Families I didn't accept it. I received it. -- Richard Allen, National Security Advisor to President Reagan, explaining the $1000 in cash and two watches he was given by two Japanese journalists after he hel "There is nothing more fearful than ignorance in action." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832, Criticisms, Reflections and Maxims) After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. -- Aldous Huxley Families If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war. -- Pentagon official, on why US military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War I've sometimes thought of marrying, and then I've thought again. -- Noel Coward The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. -- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer "People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult." (Anne The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life. -- Andrew Brown Families "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) There is no one so bound to his own face that he does not cherish the hope of presenting another to the world. -- Antonio Machado Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. -- Wernher Von Braun Families I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat! -- Will Rogers "Things do not change, we change." (Henry David Thoreau) "One pretty good definition of college is that it's a place where people are made to read difficult books." (Jonathan Franzen) A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life. -- Christopher Morley Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun. -- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Families It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably. -- Kant, Immanuel University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. -- Henry Kissinger Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored. -- George Saunders - last words Families blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway. -- Fr. Jerome Cummings I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. -- Mark Twain He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech. -- Richard Darman, director of OMB, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his campaign pledge that there would be "When once you have tasted flight you will always walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward: for there you have been and there you will always be." (Henry Van Dyke) Families "A friendship that exacts oneness of opinion and conduct is not worth much." (Mohandas Gandhi, In Search of the Supreme) The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise. -- Roger Simon Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind. -- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks Families The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. -- ee cummings "Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat." (Martin H. Fischer) I'll sleep when I'm dead. - Warren Zevon "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves." (William Hazlitt) You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to cough. -- Pearl Williams Families May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in the palm "I'm basically an optimist in life but this doesn't prevent me from deducing as a scientist that we are probably doomed." 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