family law, worldwide
Posted in North America on Apr 21st, 2008
The New York Times Modern Love column prints stories about love and relationships. This week’s column is written by a lesbian who married her partner in San Francisco. She discusses some of the domestic partnership laws in California, how they’ve affected her life, and why she still thinks marriage offers gay couples more. [...]
Posted in North America on Apr 21st, 2008
As I posted here, more than 500 women and children left or were removed from the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints’ Yearning for Zion ranch in Texas, April 3. Now, because many of the children have refused to tell authorities their or their parents’ names and lied about their [...]
Posted in North America on Apr 21st, 2008
This article in last week’s Newsweek looks at the effect loosened divorce laws had on kids growing up in the 1970s and early 1980s. Some of the men and women describe feeling ashamed of their parents’ failed marriages during a time when divorce was just beginning to become acceptable. As the author explains,
The change had [...]
Posted in North America on Apr 16th, 2008
Several U.S. states have enacted laws allowing either domestic partnerships or, in the case of Massachusetts, marriage for gay couples. What some states didn’t plan for in their laws is a problem that seems to plague all kinds of unions: divorce.
Now some couples who were married in Massachusetts but live in another state are [...]
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