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• When it comes to child custody, is the system failing families?

  23-01-2026 17:57
  Guardian readers respond to Lara Feigel’s powerful account of divorce and the family courtLara Feigel highlights the impact of “win/lose” adjudication in the adversarial court system, a system tailor-made to produce the worst possible outcomes for separating families (I was warned my children would be ripped in half when we divorced. But I had no idea just how brutal custody cases can be, 18 January). In heightening conflict between parents, this system destroys the potential o
  
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• Having synaesthesia is a lot like being a twin – we don’t know any different

  23-01-2026 15:00
  Identical twins Helen Besgrove, a marketing executive, and Kirsty Neal, a GP,share their different experiences perceiving the world Helen Besgrove: My twin sister, Kirsty, and I have a very similar experience of synaesthesia in that our experiences of sounds, tastes, smells, words, noises and motion is very visual. Whether it’s a name, a personality, a sound or a smell – everything has a colour and a texture in our mind’s eye.What’s interesting is that the colours and the
  
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