FAMILY

Adoption in the UK provide comprehensive information on all aspects of adoption for those considering or who would like to adopt a child - sensitively raises relevant issues concerning adoption.

Useful guidelines on how to handle the school bully - links to lots of other sites which give support and information.

Home Dad is a support organisation for fathers who stay at home to raise their children - at home full-time, part-time or are raising kids on their own.

Promotes welfare of one-parent families, offering advice, information and community projects - news - factfiles - helpdesk.

Find out about using a water birth pool during labour and childbirth.

BabyCentre is your complete resource for pregnancy and babies in the UK. Created by parents and reviewed by doctors, midwives and other experts.

Gingerbread is the leading support organisation for lone parent families in England, Wales and the UK.

UK missing kids website tries to reunite families - educational resources - photo search.

Drugs are every parent's worst nightmare, If they're yours, find out what you can do. A-Z of drugs - free confidential drugs information and advice 24 hours a day.

A unique parenting lifeline with lots of information and expert advice on pre-conception, pregnancy, labour and birth, babies and toddlers - good site for families with young children full of advice and recommendations.

ASH (Action on Smoking and Health) is a campaigning public health charity working for a comprehensive societal response to tobacco aimed at achieving a sharp reduction and eventual elimination of the health problems caused by tobacco - read their online factsheets.

The UK's independent asthma charity with asthma news, information, treatment and research.

Offers support for people who have suffered a miscarriage or stillbirth - collated to provide information and support online for women and their partners who have experienced the devastating loss of a baby.

Sensitive site explaining about breast cancer research with articles and links - aims to strengthen, develop and build on our success to date, raising money to fund ground-breaking research.

Their aim is to improve the health and well-being of people in England - find the latest on the Department's work, as well as health and social care guidance, publications and policy - with research tools & links.

A site to help you deal with health problems that worry you and that are difficult for you to discuss with anyone - full of information relating to unusual and embarassing health problems.

Gamblers Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women who have joined together to do something about their own gambling problem and help other compulsive gamblers do the same - online help for people addicted to gambling.

Advice and counselling during family bereavement, sudden death or child death - advice on funeral arrangements - DIY burial, woodland burial, near death experience, terminal illness, grief counselling, poems for death, wills & inheritance tax.

Mankind UK is a support and resource service for men who have been sexually abused, sexually assaulted and/or raped - offers training and advice.

A UK charity which campaigns for equal rights for children and adults with a learning disability and offers a variety of services to them, their families and their carers - national network of support for people with learning disabilities.

The Multiple Sclerosis Society helps people live with the illness - find your nearest branch - talk with other sufferers - help and support services.

Relate is the UK's largest and most experienced relationship counselling organisation - helps people to work through their relationship difficulties and reach their own decisions about the best way forward - provides relationship counselling for couples & family.

Realease provides a range of services dedicated to meeting the health, welfare and legal needs of drugs users and those who live and work with them - honest drug facts on every substance - 24 Hr helpline.

Dedicated site for consumers advice for the disabled - independent research charity that provides information for people with disabilities and older people.

Shelter is the UK campaigning charity for homeless and badly housed people - gives advice & practical help to those sleeping rough.

Terrence Higgins Trust caters for those with or infected by HIV (aids) - the leading HIV & AIDS charity in the UK and the largest in Europe - set up in response to the HIV epidemic and has been at the forefront of the fight against HIV & AIDS ever since.

The Samaritans support people who are suicidal and despairing - providing confidential, emotional support online - local branches.

Victim Support is a UK charity for people affected by crime. It is a completely independent organisation, offering a free and confidential service, irrespective of whether or not a crime has been reported..

Foremost in the field of weightwatching this site includes diet friendly food recipes.

Protection for women & children experiencing domestic violence - violence is physical, psychological, sexual or financial violence that takes place within an intimate or family-type relationship and forms a pattern of coercive and controlling behaviour.

First UK online magazine for fathers, written by fathers - work and family, dad chat, competitions and much more.

Men have a one in 3 chance of getting prostate cancer…the Prostate Cancer Charity offers support and information to anyone concerned with prostate cancer, its treatment and living with the disease.

Information about the vasectomy issue & lots of resources - the only permanent method of contraception for men.

Helps mothers develop a special bond with their baby - a unique set of baby developmental books.

Linking children all across the world through school nets to 150,000 schools worldwide, and a global index to free educational resources for parents and schools.

Helps you plan the perfect party for children's birthday parties, find entertainers venues and bouncy castles - good site for anyone planning a kids party.

The National Youth Agency promotes young people's personal and social developement.

Promotes action for the relief, directly or indirectly, of poverty among children and families with children in the UK.

Lots of resources and information dealing with divorce & separation - your divorce proceedings, agreed financial orders, separation agreements, will writing service, changing your name, children's issues, cohabitation laws.

Content rich site - aims to help you find the government records and other sources you need for your family history research.

Free legal guidance and help @ freelawyer - get online help from virtual lawyers on family law, motoring, housing, employment, consumer law and personal injury law.

GENUKI is the genealogical information service for the UK and Ireland, containing a large structured tree of information - with newsgroups and bulletin board.

Good resources for elderly folk with free welfare rights services - campaigns for and assists older people in helping to end age discrimination.

Impressive site specifically geared for the over 50's - exists to enable like-minded people aged 50 (ish!) and over to share their experiences, gain knowledge from one another and have fun.