Nicky Lock discusses the best ways to support your spouse or friend when they have depression.

Have you ever considered home schooling your children? The arguments for and against are hotly debated, and nowhere more so than in Christian circles.

If as Christians we are to love our neighbour and to love one another, on what basis can we decide that we need to end a friendship?

Spare the rod and spoil the child - an insistence on corporal punishment or simply an call for appropriate discipline?

Apart from the dented bank accounts and extra kilos gained due to Mother's Day celebrations, there can be emotional consequences too.

For many Christians fostering children is an important way to express their love for God, and put their faith into action. Some see it as their ministry.

Many of the couples who sit in my counselling room have, at its most simple level, lost the ability to be friends with each other.

A relative of mine asked me the other day how and when do you start building those family habits that support you in training up a child in 'the way he or she should go'.

I am of the generation that learnt Latin for 5 years in high school, and remember hours of conjugating verbs in a sing song fashion for Miss Walter, our classics teacher.

The care of newborns is not something the Bible gives us a lot of insight about but we need to take note of good academic research where there is consistency with the Bible's teachings.

Loyalty - the first of three key qualities for any healthy relationship.

Thanks to the amazing success of the Twilight series parents who were once just concerned about drug-proofing their children or educating them about sex, now have to deal with a fascination with the undead.

Marriage - an opportunity for a new beginning for parents as well as the bride and groom.

'It takes a community to raise a child', the old saying goes. So where does a parent's responsibility begin and end?

Adam and Eve's lack of shame in the face of their nakedness helps us to understand how profoundly different relating with people was before the Fall. How close can we actually get to each other today?