Familienpolitik

This week’s Al Jazeera Everywoman is about Nepal. The first video looks at the social stigma Nepalese women who do not bear children faces and the widows of the British Army’s Gurkhas who don’t receive their husbands’ pensions.

The second video looks at women struggling to obtain citizenship for themselves and their children and [...]

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Something a little lighter from The Local, an English-language German news site:
Anyone with a mere smattering of German can see where Eija-Riitta Berliner-Mauer got her name from. But the 54-year-old Swede is not just named after the Berlin Wall, she reckons that she is married to it.
The short article goes on to explain that Berliner-Mauer [...]

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New York Governor David Paterson’s spokeswoman Erin Duggan said today that same-sex marriages performed in other states and countries legally must be recognized in New York.
State agencies, including those governing insurance and health care, must immediately change policies and regulations to make sure “spouse,” “husband” and “wife” are clearly understood to include gay couples, according [...]

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I’ve been following this issue closely since it first was reported. You can see a copy of the original affidavit here. Now the Texas Supreme Court has ruled that Child Protective Services had no right to remove the children from the YFZ ranch, upholding a lower court’s ruling. This CNN.com article goes [...]

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Doug Kmiec responds to Eric Posner’s response to Kmiec’s blog post recommending that the U.S. pay families to have children the way they do in Europe.  I blogged about the discussion and gave my two cents on European family support plans here.
Kmiec defends the continued relevance of marriage, saying
In its traditional form, marriage transforms by [...]

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