Familienpolitik

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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Slate.com analyzes yesterday’s California Supreme Court ruling overturning laws making same-sex marriage illegal here. Author Kenji Yoshino argues that while Massachusetts will always have the honor of being the first state to legalize same-sex marriage, the California ruling is legally more significant.
The California Supreme Court came to the same conclusion [as the Massachusetts Supreme [...]

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Proposition 22, a law defining marriage as a union between a man and a woman and passed by California voters in 2000, was overturned today by the California Supreme Court. You can read the details from CNN here or from the New York Times here.
Several same-sex couples, gay rights groups and the city of [...]

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My classmate Christa Hillstrom, who blogs about human trafficking here, found this article about a new family law in Mali on the United Nations’ Integrated Regional Information Networks news site. Family law in this African country hasn’t changed much since the 1960s, shortly after Mali gained independence from France.

photo by Arriving at the Horizon [...]

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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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