family law, worldwide
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 1st, 2008
This Spiegel Online article reports that Family Minister Ursula von der Leyen’s controversial policies of paying parents up to $2,810 for up to 12 months, increasing support for paternity leave and implementing a plan to triple the number of daycare places have worked: The fertility rate was 1.45 children per woman, up from 1.33 in [...]
Posted in Europe on Apr 26th, 2008
Germany and the U.S. have recently signed an agreement to share information about potential terrorists. Spiegel magazine reports that the agreement
contains a passage that foresees the exchange of data about a suspect’s “racial or ethnic origin, political views, religious and other beliefs or membership of a union,” should they be relevant in the fight [...]
Posted in Europe on Apr 25th, 2008
When Hatun Sürücü was killed by her brothers for living a lifestyle that challenged their traditional, Muslim values, Germans were shocked. Now a charity in Berlin named after Hatun and her son Can has been started to protect women from this kind of violence. In this Spiegel Online article, two Turkish women share [...]
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