Familienpolitik

This weekend I finally finished a movie I started on a LAN flight from Madrid to Frankfurt almost a year ago. Daniel Burman’s Family Law (Derecho de familia) is a sweet look at an Argentinean law professor, his lawyer father and his young son. The film is mostly only related to this blog [...]

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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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Today is the United Nations International Day of Families. The theme for this year is “Fathers and Families: Responsibilities and Challenges.” Secretary General Ban Ki Moon wrote in a message in honor of the day
Traditionally in many societies, fathers have been moral teachers, disciplinarians and breadwinners. In many countries, there is now [...]

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Six Vietnamese have been arrested by Chinese authorities for allegedly taking part in a baby-selling ring. Time reports the arrests here. As I blogged about several days ago, Vietnam has stopped permitting U.S. couples to adopt Vietnamese babies, after a U.S. embassy report alleged that its adoption system was rife with corruption and [...]

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This New York Times article about a Chilean town offering free Viagra to qualified seniors caught my eye because I blogged about Chile’s Constitutional Court stopping a government-sponsored giveaway of the morning-after pill only a couple of weeks ago.
Lo Prado Mayor Gonzalo Navarrete said he launched the program because ”an active sexuality improves the overall [...]

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