Contact
Subscribe now

All articles & reviews tagged with family-education-trust

By Norman Wells

News

September 2019
News > Conferences

Family Education Trust conference tackles Marxist-feminist view of marriage

The ramifications of liberalising divorce law, plus growing state regulation of family life were the focus of this year’s Family Education Trust conference. Colin Hart (Christian Institute director and Coalition for Marriage chairman) averred that the development of overly sentimental or Marxist-feminist views of marriage have undermined its meaning. Referring to governmental plans to…

Read more
Remembering Valerie Riches (1924-2018)
By Norman Wells

News

September 2018
News > People > Obituaries

Remembering Valerie Riches (1924-2018)

Valerie Riches, the founder president and former director of the Family Education Trust, died earlier this year, aged 93. When I was first introduced to Family and Youth Concern, as it was then known, in 1993, Valerie Riches had been labouring on behalf of the family and the welfare of children and young people…

Read more
By Norman Wells

News

August 2018
News > Conferences

Conference – Family Education Trust

Speaking at this year’s Family Education Trust conference, Dr Patrick Fagan, from the Marriage and Religion Research Institute in Washington DC, argued that it is a massive strategic mistake for the government to try to operate behaviour-changing programmes. Real change comes about through the relational spheres of family, church and school, he said. During…

Read more
Society – Sex education ‘blinds us’

News

April 2018
News > Society

Society – Sex education ‘blinds us’

Sex education could be one of the factors behind the increasing levels of childlessness in the UK, Norman Wells has said. The director of the Family Education Trust told the Daily Mail there were many reasons why people might be refraining from having children earlier on in their lives, with economic pressures being high…

Read more
Education – Family Education Trust AGM

News

September 2017
News > Education

Education – Family Education Trust AGM

The transgender agenda is having a serious effect on school policies, the chairman of the Family Education Trust (FET) has warned. In his opening address to the 2017 annual general meeting, held in London, Arthur Cornell gave a broad overview of some key issues that had arisen in relation to the welfare of children…

Read more
Conference – Transgender conference
By Norman Wells

News

August 2017
News > Conferences

Conference – Transgender conference

The addresses given at this year’s Family Education Trust conference focused on a topic much in the public consciousness, and one which has been largely confined to academic debate. In his paper on the transgender agenda, the chief executive of the Christian Medical Fellowship, Dr Peter Saunders, traced the rapid growth of the number…

Read more
Youth – Children at risk

News

July 2017
News > Youth

Youth – Children at risk

The normalisation of underage sex has left children and young people in serious risk of sexual exploitation, a report from the Family Education Trust has found. The 152-page report, called Unprotected: how the normalisation of underage sex is exposing children and young people to the risk of sexual exploitation, analyses high-profile cases of child…

Read more
Browse Key People Browse Storymaps Browse Timelines Browse World Mission

Browse articles

Browse by issue

Browse by category

Author search

Advanced article search

All categories

Most popular this month

1

Article

Personal holiness essential for leaders
Read article

2

News

New pastor at Newquay Reformed Baptist Church
Read article

3

News

Dr Phillip E. Johnson (1940-2019)
Read article

4

News

China: church responds to pastor’s jail term
Read article