family law, worldwide
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 21st, 2008
In April I blogged about Spanish president Zapatero’s appointment of the visibly pregnant Carme Chacón as his new defense minister. Now she has given birth to a boy. Speculation continues over whether Chacón will take advantage of the full four months maternity leave afforded her, or split the time with her husband, something [...]
Posted in Europe on Apr 24th, 2008
When José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero was elected prime minister of Spain in 2004, he declared that his cabinet would be made up of an equal number of female ministers as male ministers. Now that he has been reelected to a second term he has upped the ante.
His cabinet is now composed of more women than [...]
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