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organisations

Age Concern
Astral House
1268 London Road
London SW16 4ER
Info line 0800 00 99 66 7.00am - 7.00pm
Tel: 020 8765 7200
Website: www.ageconcern.org.uk
Age Concern is the UK's largest organisation working with older people. The website providews a portal, putting people in touch with their local groups and outlining how the organisation is campaigning for the rights of older people. The website also offers helpful information about health, socialising and discussion areas.

National Council for One Parent Families
255 Kentish Town Road
London NW5 2LX
Helpline: 0800 018 5026 (Mon-Fri 9am-5pm)
Tel: 020 7428 5400
Website: www.oneparentfamilies.org.uk
The council campaigns for the rights of lone parents of children with disabilities. Its website provides helpful information about finances, childcare and even planning a holiday. The site also provides single parents with a community. The confidential helpline offers support down the telephone and there is an online helpdesk accessed via the web.

National Family and Parenting Institute
430 Highgate Studios
53-79 Highgate Road
London NW5 1TL
Tel: 020 7428 5400
E-mail: info@nfpi.org
Website: www.nfpi.org
This campaigning organisation works to improve life for parents all over England and Wales. The website has guides to the law, government policy and state benefits as well as features on how to deal with relationships in a family and improve your family's lifestyle.

websites

e-parents
www.e-parents.org
Run by the NFPI, this fun and interactive site is concerned with maintaining the well-being of families in England and Wales. The site invites parents to offer the benfit of their experience as well as guides to health, law and useful organisations.

Families online
www.familiesonline.co.uk
Aimed at families with young children, this website offers a wealth of articles and features which answer many of the questions parents might have about health, schooling and general issues of raising a family.

Family 2000
www.family2000.org.uk
This website, edited by psychotherapist Jill Curtis, contains hundreds of articles, features and book reviews on many aspects of family life, such as divorce, single parents and raising children with special needs.

Step Family Matters
www.step-family-matters.com
This website deals offers resources, tools and support to help step-parents successfully establish themselves within a new family and describes what issues they might face, such as competitiveness, anger and rejection.

reading


	Can I Have the Keys to the Car?: How teens and parents can talk about things that really matter by Terry and Sean Paulson (Augsburg Fortress Publication 1999) Parents and teenagers often have difficulty in talking to each other about tough issues. Terry and Sean Paulson, a father and son team, have written a reassuring and practical book to help teenagers and parents talk together and laugh together. Get this book

	21st-century Dad: A new father's game plan to child rearing by Douglas DiMichele and Raymond Feinberg (Acccess Publishers Network 2000) Aimed squarely at a male readership, this colourfully illustrated text offers Dr DiMichele's real-life description of the issues common to new parents in a generation of working couples. Get this book

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