family law, worldwide
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 Europe on May 30th, 2008
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 [...]
Posted in Europe, North America on May 27th, 2008
Today at Slate.com there two related posts addressing both same-sex marriage and child subsidies. In Doug Kmiec’s post he posits that the U.S. should pay people to have children the same way many European countries do. He argues this will encourage our birthrate and promote family values, and, that if same-sex marriage is [...]
Posted in Europe on May 23rd, 2008
One of my new favorite blogs is Slate.com’s Human Nature. William Saletan seems to blog about something family policy-related every other day, and his analysis is usually both thorough and a bit surprising. On Tuesday I blogged about his post on delaying motherhood and cousin marriage. Today he has a great post [...]
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