Woman's Hour - 06/01/2010

With Jenni Murray. One in six parents in England say their children have difficulties learning to talk, according to Jean Gross, the government's new communication champion for children. So what are the causes of children's communication problems? How does a parent know if their child has a difficulty, or is just a slow developer? What help is available? And what could does this problem mean for society? There are few things in life more traumatic than discovering your partner is having an affair. The internet and mobile phones have made it easier to cheat, and have also made it more likely that you'll be discovered. Marital therapist Andrew G Marshall joins the programme along with the columnist Yasmin Alibhai-Brown to discuss the effects of infidelity, how a crisis can become the best thing ever to happen to a relationship, and if it is ever truly possible to trust again. Sinead Morrisey is a poet whose new collection has been nominated for what have been called the Oscars of the poetry world, the TS Eliot Prize. It is the second time she has been up for the award, which will be judged later this month. Jenni finds out why her latest work has been praised for its tenderness and its unsettling exploration of pregnancy and early childhood. And the mother-daughter relationship - how for some it can be one of the closest possible, with both sides likening it to being 'best friends', while for others it is a relationship fraught with conflict, jealousy, antagonism or resentment.