family law, worldwide
Posted in Middle East on Jun 29th, 2008
When I blogged about the little Yemeni girl who filed for divorce from her 30-year-old husband by herself here, the story hadn’t been picked up by many major news outlets. Now the New York Times has an in-depth story on how that girl and another are changing the way Yemenis look at child marriage.
“Voices are [...]
Posted in Europe, Uncategorized on Jun 26th, 2008
In Albania there is a code of conduct called the Kanun of Leke Dukagjini that has been passed on orally for more than 500 years. This code of conduct has traditionally put a woman’s value at half that of a man’s and limited her role to taking care of children and the home. [...]
Posted in Europe on Jun 19th, 2008
Perhaps with all the excitement over California, not much attention was paid to the fact that an entire country legalized same-sex marriage this week. Effective January 1, 2009, Norway joins Belgium, Spain, the Netherlands, Canada and South Africa in allowing complete parity between heterosexual and homosexual marriages. Read about it here, in this brief New [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 19th, 2008
Surely in response to the first same-sex weddings in California this week, Redbook has an interesting article profiling nine different married couples. The author uses the couples as examples of nice marriage types:
Covenant marriage
Second marriage
Polyamorous marriage
Average marriage
Long-distance marriage
Child-free by choice
Same-sex marriage
Late-in-life marriage
Married young
The one marriage type I was unfamiliar with was the covenant marriage. Legal [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 16th, 2008
Today in California the court ruling opening the door to same-sex marriage kicks in at 5:01 pm. Some county offices plan to stay open late to accommodate eager grooms and brides. According to this cnn.com article, however, the bride and groom terms have been replaced in the paperwork with “Partner A” and “Partner B.”
Looking forward [...]
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