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🔊 Listen to Raising Teens: Family Breakups

There are just under 4 million children in the UK whose parents are separated. Recent research has found that adolescents whose parents split up are significantly more likely than younger children to suffer from emotional and behavioural issues. So how do today’s families deal with break-ups? What kind of issues do step-parents or step- or half-children (so-called “blended families”) face and how do they deal with them? How can families navigate relationship break-ups and stay resilient? With guests Alex Psaila from Relate, Jo Heywood, an education specialist; Dan Flanagan from the brilliant Dad La Soul; and Make (Good) Trouble founder Daisy Cresswell.
First broadcast on BBC Sussex on 1 and 3 June 2020.