Roughton, Joanna
7 Articles at Lifeissues.net

Joanna Roughton is Media Relations Manager for the Home Renaissance Foundation, a London-based think tank. She was formerly senior editor at Reuters in Hong Kong and Singapore, and head of Foreign News at Sky News in London.

Articles

Endangering the home in the name of productivity?

The number of British home-makers who feel compelled to join the workforce continues, inexorably, to rise.

Date posted: 2015-02-02

Birth decisions: home or hospital?

What then should we think of headlines this month proclaiming a big shift in the medical view of home births?

Date posted: 2014-12-22

Homemakers build the foundations of society

I'm not sure that there was ever a time when the division of labour between the workplace and the home seemed natural and harmonious. But in recent decades - with all the upheaval of our various social and sexual revolutions - the home sphere has become contentious. Who should do what around the house has become hugely political; particularly amongst that generation of women who were raised to become professionals outside the home.

Date posted: 2014-10-07

The surprising benefit of a stay-at-home mother

Mothers are the great glue which binds society together. They organise, they volunteer, they nurture. And, when they are not around, you notice it. Look at any of those etiolated "communities" where every woman is a worker and you will see what I mean.

Date posted: 2014-08-30

Is Single Occupancy Vandalising the Environment?

When you think of someone living alone what springs to mind? An elderly spinster perhaps, or a young professional? The truth is that the typical solitary dweller is middle-aged. In America, for instance, the majority are between the ages of 35 and 64; some 16 million people.

Date posted: 2014-04-21

Happiness is ... dinner with the family

What is the one thing which makes family meals easier?... You don't need an Office for National Statistics to know that a family where one spouse is at home is more likely to put on family meals, than one where both parents work full-time.

Date posted: 2014-04-06

Mothering in the work-life balancing act

Recently the UK Department for Education - not always a friend of the family - published a big study it had commissioned. The research examined the attitudes of working mothers.

Date posted: 2014-03-03