Fat is a social disease, and fat is a feminist issue.

The parents' job is to be there for their kids, not the other way round. Troubles between parents need to be talked through with friends and not visited on the children.

Emotional Literacy means being able to recognise what you are feeling, so that it doesn't interfere with thinking. It becomes another dimension to draw upon when making decisions or encountering situations. Emotional expression by contrast can mean being driven by emotions, so that it isn't possible to think. These two things are often confused, because we are still uncomfortable with the idea of the validity of feelings.

Fat is a way of saying no to powerlessness and self-denial.

We accept there's an emotional aspect to life. But we're not very developed in our ways of understanding it.

Fat people are so rarely included in visual culture that fat is perceived as a blot on the landscape of sleek and slim.

From a child's point of view, there is rarely a great time for parents to separate, even if there has been a lot of commotion and fighting.