"Nobody steps out of a marriage lightly..."

As lockdown starts to ease and families begin to meet again, Stephanie Regan takes a closer look at the importance of grandparents in the family dynamic. From passing on knowledge and experience to supporting new parents, their influence is felt throughout the generations. She and Ivan discuss the positive influences not just of grandparents on their grandchildren, but vice versa, and tackles the tricky subject of when advice becomes interference!

Stephanie Regan, clinical psychotherapist, continued our series “The Family”, where we’ve covered single parenting, same sex couples, blended families and more. This week she talked about adoption - who can adopt, who can be adopted, getting access to information and documentation decades after adoption etc. 

Stephanie Regan continues her series about the modern Irish family, and today she examined fostering. Everything from how you sign up, the potential challenges, the love, the heartbreak and the realities of fostering.

Clinical Psychotherapist Stephanie Regan joined Ivan to kick off a brand new series we will be running every Monday on The Hard Shoulder on the changing face of Irish families.  Each week we will be looking at different aspects of family life and family roles. This week it was all about motherhood and fatherhood.

Body language expert Judi James talks Ivan through what body language signals we give off when a relationship is going well, or is breaking down.