Discredited hair-testing program harmed vulnerable families across Ontario, report says

A review of more than 1,200 child welfare cases spanning 25 years has found that a now-discredited hair analysis program in Toronto that tested for drug and alcohol use caused extensive — and potentially irreversible — harm to vulnerable families across Ontario.

Children 'more likely to be harmed by rowing parents than divorced mum and dad'

A new study has found that it is not necessarily parents splitting up that has an impact on a child’s development, but what happens at home beforehand. It suggests that youngsters with divorced parents are almost a third more likely to have behaviour or emotional issues than those whose mums and dads remain married. A […]