family law, worldwide
Posted in Europe on Apr 25th, 2008
When Hatun Sürücü was killed by her brothers for living a lifestyle that challenged their traditional, Muslim values, Germans were shocked. Now a charity in Berlin named after Hatun and her son Can has been started to protect women from this kind of violence. In this Spiegel Online article, two Turkish women share [...]
Posted in Europe on Apr 24th, 2008
When José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero was elected prime minister of Spain in 2004, he declared that his cabinet would be made up of an equal number of female ministers as male ministers. Now that he has been reelected to a second term he has upped the ante.
His cabinet is now composed of more women than [...]
Posted in North America on Apr 21st, 2008
The New York Times Modern Love column prints stories about love and relationships. This week’s column is written by a lesbian who married her partner in San Francisco. She discusses some of the domestic partnership laws in California, how they’ve affected her life, and why she still thinks marriage offers gay couples more. [...]
Posted in North America on Apr 21st, 2008
As I posted here, more than 500 women and children left or were removed from the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints’ Yearning for Zion ranch in Texas, April 3. Now, because many of the children have refused to tell authorities their or their parents’ names and lied about their [...]
Posted in North America on Apr 21st, 2008
This article in last week’s Newsweek looks at the effect loosened divorce laws had on kids growing up in the 1970s and early 1980s. Some of the men and women describe feeling ashamed of their parents’ failed marriages during a time when divorce was just beginning to become acceptable. As the author explains,
The change had [...]
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