Family

A Wigan rugby team has helped cheer cancer patients in Preston.

Workers at Learndirect’s offices in Preston, Wigan and St Helens dressed in purple in support of their colleague who lost his dad to pancreatic cancer.

Virgin Holidays has become the first to abolish stealth hotel charges for single parent families to a string of long-haul destinations.

A young girl has donated her hair and helped to make two wigs for children with cancer.

What’s the best way to raise your child? It’s a question that has provoked the publication of numerous books, and seen authors race to coin the next quirky name for a new style of parenting.

If you had the sneaking suspicion your average stag night was just a group of blokes repeatedly getting knocked back from bars before finally gaining entry to their chosen city’s least salubrious establishment for a night of cheap booze and cliched advice giving - you might be right.

The manufacturer of a specialist baby carrier has been forced to issue upgrade kits for 4,000 units after reports that a key part might fail.

Nearly half of parents admit being “piggy bank raiders” who dip into their children’s cash to pay for parking, takeaways, taxis, school trips and the window cleaner.

Children in the UK will borrow a total of £5billion from their parents to get them on the property ladder in 2016, according to data from Legal & General (L&G).

Having perfect Instagram pictures and well-travelled children are among the top 20 modern-day pressures facing parents, new research reveals.

Children’s attention spans are being damaged by the amount of time spent on smartphones... by their parents, according to new research.

Parents clock up an average of 700 extra miles a year acting as a taxi service for their children, reveals new research.

Leave the traditional names at the door, and welcome in the innovative and unusual for the new year.

Rising numbers of parents are lodging appeals after their children were denied places at a chosen school, with tens of thousands submitted last year, figures show.

Worried parents have tried to contact Prime Minister David Cameron in their efforts to save BBC children’s channel CBeebies from the axe.

Wages may be rising as the economy picks up but parents are still putting the squeeze on pocket money as figures show it has fallen by 2.4% in the last year.

An infant heir to the throne has been spotted in Burnley – or has he?

New r​esearch shows parents across the UK are spending an average of £35,000 on their children by the time they get to five years old – and that’s not a small amount, by anyone’s calculations