12 Years A Slave? How about 21 years!!

I saw this on Saturday. Anyone thinking of getting married, is married, has kids or is thinking of having them, is in a “relationship” or is even remotely thinking of being in one….should see this film. Maybe you are a child of divorce and you wonder why you were not allowed to see your other…

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Sixteen Arguments in Support of Co-Parenting

An excerpt from Psychology Today: What the Latest Research is Saying about the Best Interests of Children – By Edward Kruk, Ph.D. Our current system of resolving child custody disputes rarely considers either children’s needs from children’s own perspective, or current research on child custody outcomes. What is needed is a new standard, a “best interests…

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The Stigma of the Stay At Home Dad

Listen to the NPR broadcast of “the Changing Lives Of Women” HERE: Well, well, well. Now we have a discussion about what life is like for stay at home dads. I find it very interesting how the discussion is focused on how this change in culture affects women. The NPR series I posted above is…

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Women have to pay alimony too

The De-Gendering of Divorce: Wives Pay Ex-Husbands Alimony Too By Liza Mundy Not long ago, after giving a talk about the growing number of women who are breadwinners in their marriages, I was approached by an audience member who identified herself as a lawyer. She said that she was definitely seeing this trend in her practice…

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The rise of women does not require the fall of men

I read a great article by Christina Hoff Sommers recently. I think it points out many things we choose to ignore. Read the full article HERE As one critic told me recently, the classroom is no more rigged against boys than workplaces are rigged against lazy and unfocused workers. But unproductive workers are adults —…

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The Evolution of Divorce

by W. Bradford Wilcox – National Affairs In 1969, Governor Ronald Reagan of California made what he later admitted was one of the biggest mistakes of his political life. Seeking to eliminate the strife and deception often associated with the legal regime of fault-based divorce, Reagan signed the nation’s first no-fault divorce bill. The new…

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