Familienpolitik

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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CNN.com reports that today Judge Barbara Walther signed an order allowing all of the children seized from the Yearning For Zion ranch to be released to their parents. The order requires:

The Department of Family and Protective Services will have the right to make unannounced visits to check on the children’s medical and psychological well-being.
The [...]

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Corporal punishment of children is slowing disappearing in many countries. This Economist article says the U.S. may soon be one of the only wealthy countries and one of the only countries in the Americas to continue to allow spanking.
In recent years, several European countries (Greece and Portugal, for example) have quietly abolished parental smacking [...]

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