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Government 'relationship summit'

Updated on 18 December 2008

By Samantha Haque

Agony aunts advise Children's Secretary Ed Balls on how to make divorce less harmful for children.

It is not the kind of letter you would expect from a cabinet minister. "Dear Deidre, my boss wants me to look after these kids whose mum and dad are splitting up, but I don't see how I can just make the parents stay together. What should I do? Ed".

In truth, it did not happen just like that.

Samantha Haque went to the government's "relationship summit" to find out more.



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