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As a 10-year-old boy, Matt Horsfield understood much of what was unfolding around him when his father, Pat, decided to start a construction business.
Now, as an adult and president of his father’s firm, Horsfield Companies, Matt Horsfield said he realizes how substantial his father’s undertaking was.
“Essentially, he gave up everything and sacrificed everything,” he said.
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Only a third of family-owned businesses make it to the second generation. Some local entrepreneurs have taken steps to make sure their families — and their businesses — survive and thrive.
When Christopher Schneeman graduated from college, he was determined not to follow his father and grandfather into the family business of selling property and casualty [...]

Open communication and the ability to separate the different expectations of home and work are the keys to a successful father-child business relationship, experts say.
There are few neutral opinions when it comes to the father-child dynamic in family-owned businesses, said Wayne Rivers, the president of the Family Business Institute in Raleigh.
“That’s why the lows can [...]

An average family doctor is seeing up to two female patients a week who have suffered domestic violence.
But a conference of GPs has been told a woman may endure 35 violent attacks before telling the gardai.
The revelations emerged as the first guide for family doctors on how to deal with patients suffering domestic violence was [...]

An average family doctor is seeing up to two female patients a week who have suffered domestic violence.
But a conference of GPs has been told a woman may endure 35 violent attacks before telling the gardai.
The revelations emerged as the first guide for family doctors on how to deal with patients suffering domestic violence was [...]

PARENTS and students at Redstart Primary School in Chard have been making the most of nature with Family Learning Outdoor Experience lessons.
The sessions have been organised through Somerset Adult Learning and Leisure, with funding from Family Learning.
The six-week course provides parents, carers and children with a range of skills and activities based on outdoor experiences.
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“Kung Fu Panda” is an animated film the whole family can enjoy. It may not be as clever as the original “Shrek” or as technologically ground breaking as “Toy Story,” but it’s a funny and sweet – without being sappy – movie that won’t totally bore adults and will have kids howling with laughter.
This adult [...]

Walking holidays with the family often mean that parents are constantly pestered with questions of “Are we nearly there yet?” – by frowning children who find hiking anything but cool. Not so in Carinthia. Here we make sure that walking is fun for the whole family.
The W?rthersee, Carinthia’s most famous swimming lake, holds another attraction [...]

IT was a family affair when members of Cleobury Concert Brass Band held their open evening at Cleobury Mortimer Parish Hall as part of Adult Learners’ Week, with visitors doubling the number of regular band members and a few new recruits signed up.
Highlight of the evening was the handing over of a cheque for ï¿¡200 [...]

We have finally broken free from the corsets of Victorian parenting.  According to a new survey we now put our kids first on holidays – no more ‘seen and not heard’!  In possibly the largest survey of its type, over 7000 UK mothers bared their soul on travelling as a family, letting children have cake [...]