family law, worldwide
Posted in 5 questions, Asia on Jun 11th, 2008
A new feature of Familienpolitik is the 5 questions interview. This week I spoke with Faizah Marzuki, a 31-year-old Malaysian who is an account director for an advertising company.
In the interview Marzuki refers to the fact that in Malaysia the different ethnic and religious populations are governed by different laws. Muslims, who make [...]
Posted in Asia on May 30th, 2008
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 [...]
Posted in Asia on May 28th, 2008
I posted an article about China lifting the one-child policy for parents whose children died when their schools collapsed in the May 12 earthquake here. One idea floated by the author was that this would calm parents upset over the poorly constructed schools. Looks like it didn’t.
According to this New York Times article, [...]
Posted in Asia on May 28th, 2008
A few weeks ago I posted about how the earthquake in China had left many parents childless when their only children were killed. Now, according to this New York Times article, China has lifted the one-child policy for “parents whose only child was killed or grievously injured in the May 12 earthquake.”
Is the Chinese [...]
Posted in Asia, Europe, Middle East, North America, South America on May 20th, 2008
In this blog post at Slate.com’s Human Nature, William Saletan questions the sense in prohibiting incest with a surprising argument. Women who delay motherhood significantly increase the risk their children will be born with Down syndrome, so much so, that by the time women are having children in their forties the risk is significantly [...]
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