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There is a sense in which Hadley Freemans Good Girls has been written by two authors: the anorexic teenager she once was and the recovered 44-year-old journalist with three children she now is she was, until recently, a staff writer on the Guardian and, for almost a decade, its fashion correspondent . Anorexics tend to be unreliable witnesses when in the grip of the illness and, at times, there is an oddity about this book, a curious sense of separation between the suffering younger self and the aloof older self, but Freeman is a brave, illuminating and meticulous reporter and uses her ex stanley cup perience wisely. According to the Royal College of Psychiatrists, hospital admissions for eating disorders have increased by 84% over the past five years, a fact that in itself should make this revelatory book required reading.Freeman explores the anorexics warped thinking and brings us as close as is possible to understanding the incomprehensible 鈥?the consuming obsession with not consuming. It was a casual comment that ignited her illness. It often is, apparently. A skinny girl said to her: I wish I was normal like you. Norma stanley spain l triggered what would become her abnormal struggl stanley cups e a trigger , she points out, is not the same as a cause . She grew up in a Jewish-American family 鈥?loving, comfortably off 鈥?and came to England from New York, aged 11. At home, she believes she absorbed the subtext that food was the medium through which women express unhappiness . She debunks the oversimplif Uabb Rural development won t solve Britain s housing crisis
As a high court judge in the family division, Sir Paul Coleridge sees the effects of the bitterest family splits first hand. His conclusion is that couples are too ready to abandon their commitment to each other and unwilling stanley italia to endure and overcome the challenges marriage brings, and that family breakdown has reached epidemic proportions. The Marriage Foundation he launched last week will, he hopes, shore up the institution.Sir Paul is, nonetheless, a judge, and controversy would ensue if he ventured on to overtly political ground. So while he defends the right to speak out based on his experience in court, he has nothing to say about many of the issues that preoccupy those who work in the family courts. Why does the average private law case take 32 weeks to pass through the family courts cases involving social services take even longer What will happen to victims of domestic violence who cannot provide enough ev stanley nz idence of abuse to qualify for legal aid, now the legal aid bill has passed When a couple split, should they continue to share parenting responsibilities Last year s Norgrove review of the family justice system, which detailed many of its inefficiencies, recommended not; the government, lobbied by fathers organisations, disagrees. On these subjects, Sir Paul stays silent. The Marriage Foundation s political and re stanley becher ligious neutrality is a strength. Yet so is Relate s. He desperately wants to avoid a moral crusade , yet stripped of any abil |
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