ArticlesCategory :: MarriageBy New York Times 8/18/2010 "...It's a development that predates the current economic doldrums, and no one knows yet what the impact will be — on the prospects of the young men and women, on the parents on whom so many of them depend, on society, built on the expectation of an orderly progression in which kids finish school, grow up, start careers, make a family and ..." Read the entire article: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/22/magazine/22Adulthood-t.html?emc=eta1 By Slam "...The joint statement said "the (divorce) judgment provides for shared parenting of their two children."..." Read the entire article: http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Golf/News/2010/08/23/15114241.html By Washington Times 8/16/2010 "Feminists may insist that life for women has gotten better since the days when raucous female activists marched in the streets for equality and questioned traditional social mores about men, marriage and career." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/aug/16/poll-shows-mixed-feelings-about-feminism/ By Catholic.net 8/19/2010 "Christians are uniting to affirm the importance of fatherhood and the truths of John Paul II's teaching in the theology of the body, says Glenn Stanton." Read the entire article: http://www.catholic.net/index.php?option=zenit&id=30102 By Wayne Parker, About.com Guide "...Most people who find themselves in an affair did not set out to find one. Dr. Shirley Glass, infidelity expert and author of the book, Not Just Friends writes, "It is faulty thinking to believe that if you are attracted to someone else there must be something wrong at home. ..." Read the entire article: http://fatherhood.about.com/cs/dadsandmoms/a/affair_proof.htm?nl=1 By Sheri & Bob Stritof, About.com Guide "If you ask married couples what has held them together throughout many years of married life, most will respond by mentioning qualities or skills such as being good listeners, respecting one another, having a good sense of humor, knowing how to have fun, being willing to adapt, accepting that you can't change your partner, and love." Read the entire article: http://marriage.about.com/od/keysforsuccess/a/peanutbutter.htm?nl=1 By San Francisco Chronicle - California 8/8/2010 "In 1978, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a Wisconsin law that denied marriage licenses to noncustodial parents who were behind in child-support payments By Telegraph.co.uk 8/2/2010 "Women found men more appealing when they were either pictured wearing red or framed in red, compared with other colours, it found." Read the entire article: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/7922951/Women-prefer-a-man-in-red.html By Baltimore Sun - Maryland 8/2/2010 "...In the divorce she was to get $10, 000 a month alimony and $16, 000 in child support, including $4,000 in nanny services, $2700 for credit cards, $800 for entertainment and $600 for housekeeping. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/wreg-ex-wife-denies-involvement-in-wright-murder-story,0,6542559.story By New York Times 7/26/2010 "...Nearly one in four American couples sleep in separate bedrooms or beds, the National Sleep Foundation reported in a 2005 survey. Recent studies in England and Japan have found similar results. And the National Association of Home Builders says it expects 60 percent of custom homes to have dual master bedrooms by 2015. ..." Read the entire article: http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/38410209/ns/today-the_new_york_times/ By New York Times 7/12/2010 "...Dr. Khoruts decided his patient needed a transplant. But he didn’t give her a piece of someone else’s intestines, or a stomach, or any other organ. Instead, he gave her some of her husband’s bacteria. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/13/science/13micro.html?_r=1 By Tucson Citizen - Arizona 7/20/2010 "Guys who wonder if they are being unwittingly sucked into marriage or child support payments when they don’t even have a child can now find out once and for all." Read the entire article: http://tucsoncitizen.com/dating/2010/07/20/who%E2%80%99s-your-daddy-dna-paternity-testing-goes-countywide-in-cochise-clinics/comment-page-1/ By Knoxville News Sentinel - Tennessee 7/25/2010 "...Facebook and other social networks, such as Twitter, Flickr, Photobucket and MySpace, are becoming the latest legal tool in divorce and child-support battles. ..." Read the entire article: http://m.knoxnews.com/news/2010/jul/25/in-the-age-of-facebook-divorce-battles-go/ By The Boston Globe 7/18/2010 "... Two years ago, Niro’s youngest son graduated from college, ending child support payments and leaving his former wife with alimony of $65 a week. “The next thing I know, I get summonsed to court for alimony adjustment,’’ he says. A probate court judge increased the alimony to $700 a week even though the couple had divorced nearly a quarter of a century ago — five times longer than they were married. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/family/articles/2010/07/18/years_and_marriages_later_former_spouses_still_owe_alimony/ By Telegraph.co.uk 7/4/2010 "The heated emotions aroused by one person’s divorce can be transferred like a virus, causing others to divorce, researchers found."
By The Daytona Beach News Journal 7/1/2010 "The family of the late Tom Moore will send him on a final journey Sunday in one of his favorite holiday traditions, a colorful shower of fireworks over Lake Disston." Read the entire article: http://www.news-journalonline.com/news/local/west-volusia/2010/07/01/widow-honors-spouse-with-holiday-fireworks-sendoff.html By People.com 6/29/2010 "...On Monday night, Terri Horman was served with a restraining order and divorce papers, the Oregonian reports. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20397855,00.html By Albany Times Union – New York 6/25/2010 "New Yorkers need divorce reform, but no-fault divorce is not enough. It does nothing for spouses left in difficult or dire financial circumstances by the capricious laws now governing spousal support." By USA Today 6/22/2010 "...That's when it seems this generation of young people is giving new meaning to the words "long-term relationship." Many are "a couple" for years, and some approach a decade of dating. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2010-06-22-10yearcourtship22_CV_N.htm By Barbara Kay -- National Post 6/14/2010 "...The husband isn’t too thrilled about this, and presses for changes to the divorce laws. As a result, tomorrow the state legislative committee will hear arguments for a change to the no-fault divorce laws that will close this little loophole, stating that folks who try to murder their partners won’t be eligible for financial rewards in divorce proceedings. ..." By New York Times 6/15/2010 "The State Senate on Tuesday, clearing aside decades of opposition, put New York on a course to adopt no-fault divorce — the last state to do so. It approved legislation that would permit couples to separate by mutual consent, a major shift with sweeping implications for families and lawyers." Read the entire article: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/16/nyregion/16divorce.html?src=me By Maggie Gallagher, Letters to the Editor --Washington Times 6/13/2010 "...Overturning California's Proposition 8 would be an outrageous violation of the rights of the 7 million Californians who voted to protect marriage in their state constitution as well as the rights of millions of other Americans in other states with similar marriage amendments. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/12/AR2010061203606.html By Fort Smith Times Record – Arkansas 6/13/2010 "...From a personal financial perspective, divorce ranks at or near the top of life events that can cause mass financial destruction. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.swtimes.com/business/article_3ee24de0-770d-11df-84bb-001cc4c03286.html By KTLA.com 6/9/2010 "A woman who was busted having sex at a New York park knew she was in hot water but the last thing on her mind was getting hit with adultery charges." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/wpix-woman-charged-with-adultery-after-park-sex,0,261408.story By KTLA.com 6/14/2010 "...Pomroy's wife collected about $70,000 from their estate after she was released from prison in 2004. She pleaded guilty to soliciting others to murder her husband in early 2003, according to San Bernardino County prosecutors. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-deadly-divorce-law,0,4806254.story By People.com 6/4/2010 "It's over for Dog Whisperer host Cesar Millan and his wife, Ilusion." Read the entire article: http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20391564,00.html Study: Building Strong Families Evaluation Suggests Stronger Approach is NeededTuesday, 25 May 2010
By TMCnet 5/21/2010 "...The study measured the living arrangements, relationship status, relationship quality, extent of father involvement with his child, domestic violence and economic well-being of approximately five thousand couples who were randomly assigned to either a control group or a group that had access to a Building Strong Families program. ..." Read the entire article: http://it.tmcnet.com/news/2010/05/21/4803106.htm By CTV.ca - Canada 5/19/2010 "A Quebec couple's nasty separation is before the province's highest court to determine whether unmarried conjugal couples should benefit from the same rights and protections as married couples." Read the entire article: http://montreal.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20100519/mtl_lola_100517/20100519/?hub=MontrealHome By 24-7PressRelease.com (press release) – New York 5/23/2010 "While some couples cannot afford to divorce in the still-struggling economy, some wealthy spouses in New York might actually prefer to get divorced now." Read the entire article: http://www.24-7pressrelease.com/press-release/a-tale-of-two-outcomes-dollars-and-divorce-in-new-york-152008.php By New York Daily News 5/22/2010 "...She reportedly also wants full custody of their two kids even though it was first thought the couple were going to agree to joint custody. ..." By People.com 5/19/2010 "....I knew if I continued on that track, I probably wouldn’t have gotten married,” O’Donnell reveals in Redbook‘s June issue. ..." Read the entire article: http://celebritybabies.people.com/2010/05/19/chris-odonnell-i-chose-family-over-fame/ By FatherhoodChannel.com 5/16/2010 "Last week, we had the pleasure of spending four intensive days with marriage educators and couples for a program sponsored by the California Healthy Marriage Coalition (CHMC), the nation’s largest federally-funded umbrella organization promoting strong marriages." Read the entire article: http://fatherhoodchannel.com/2010/05/16/pairs-essentials-helps-california-marriage-educators-bring-health-hope-and-healing-to-couples-and-families/ By Yahoo News 5/14/2010 "An unhappy mother hurled her toddler daughter into the chilly Hudson River and then jumped in herself in an apparent murder-suicide attempt intended to spite her husband, prosecutors said Friday." Read the entire article: http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/100514/world/us_river_rescue By New York Times 5/9/2010 "...In 2007, according to the most recent statistics available, there were more than 81,000 separations and 50,000 divorces among Italy’s population of 59 million. Thirty years ago, divorces did not break the 12,000 mark. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/10/world/europe/10milan.html By New York Times 5/10/2010 "Why do some men and women cheat on their partners while others resist the temptation?" Read the entire article: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/10/tracking-the-science-of-commitment/?src=me&ref=general By People.com 5/7/2010 "..."I'm so dramatic ... and in the past, I've been really mean," the singer, 30, says about her 4-year-marriage to the motocross racer in Cosmopolitan's June issue. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20366994,00.html By Page 2 Live -- The Palm Beach Post 5/10/2010 "...Siohvaughn Wade failed to materialize for Monday’s divorce hearing in the couple’s hometown of Chicago. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.page2live.com/2010/05/10/wanted-by-cops-heat-star-dwyane-wades-wife/?cxntlid=cmg_cntnt_rssed by the sheriff: Miami Heater Dwyane Wade’s wife! By KTLA.com 5/8/2010 "Los Angeles Dodgers owner Frank McCourt was ordered Friday to pay his estranged wife, Jamie, $225,000 a month in spousal support, plus $412,159 to pay the mortgages on the couple's properties." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-dodger-mccourt-divorce,0,998425.story By Medline Plus 5/5/2010 "Older adults whose spouse has Alzheimer's or another form dementia face an increased risk of dementia themselves, a new study finds." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_98426.html By KansasCity.com - Kansas 4/20/2010 "...“A lot of times, men will do for their children what they won’t do for themselves,” said George R. Williams, the marriage and family therapist who leads the program. ..." By The Economist 4/8/2010 "...Removing so many men from the marriage market has profound consequences. As incarceration rates exploded between 1970 and 2007, the proportion of US-born black women aged 30-44 who were married plunged from 62% to 33%. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.economist.com/world/united-states/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15867956 By DadsDivorce.com 4/19/2010 "Just like your DNA – your divorce case is not like anyone else’s so stop asking your friends what you should ask for, what they did, how much they had to pay or are receiving and more. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.dadsdivorce.com/blog/finances-and-divorce-why-your-case-is-unique.html?utm_source=DadsDivorce.com+Newsletter&utm_campaign=39a1f59a47-DadsDivorce_Newsletter_April_21_20104_19_2010&utm_medium=email By People.com 4/16/2010 "...But Wasser says that if they are going to counseling, it has to do with their two sons. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20361783,00.html By RightFielders Women in Sports - USA 4/16/2010 "With all of the marriages and subsequent divorces in Hollywood, celebrity child support is a hot topic these days." Read the entire article: http://sports.rightpundits.com/?p=4371 By KTLA.com 4/4/2010 "...Southwick is asking for primary custody of the children as well as spousal and child support. She is also asking for real estate, including the couple's Beverly Hills home. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-larry-king-divorce,0,3814040.story By Today MSNBC 4/14/2010 "...Jon Gosselin, 33, filed for sole custody of their children last week, saying that Kate “abuses” her right to schedule visits for him with the kids and that she does not spend enough quality time with them. ..." By FoxNews.com 4/11/2010 "Mrs. Oz's Relationship Advice" Watch the video: http://video.foxnews.com/v/4145691/mrs-ozs-relationship-advice By Newsweek 3/29/2010 "...According to a 2009 report from the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, divorce rates have been slowly dropping during this recession, from 17.3 divorces per 1,000 married women in 2005 to 16.9 in 2008. Part of the reason is the high cost of breaking up; many couples just can't afford it. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.newsweek.com/id/235619 By David Usher -- NewsWithViews.com 4/4/2010 "...The two remaining goals of welfare reform -- reducing the number of women on welfare rolls and improving child support collections – became the primary goal. PRWOWA served but one obvious purpose: to convert welfare assistance into child-support entitlements. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.newswithviews.com/Usher/david191.htm By Washington Post - 3/26/2010 "... The aim is to try to stabilize, if not reverse, the trend of non-commitment within the black community. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/26/AR2010032600679.html By The National Law Journal 3/26/2010 "A prominent advertising executive's alleged promises to support his longtime girlfriend if they broke up are unenforceable because the couple never married, a Manhattan judge has ruled." Read the entire article: http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202446834354&Ad_Execs_Promises_to_Support_Longtime_Girlfriend_Ruled_Not_Binding By PR Web (press release) –North Carolina 3/29/2010 "Rosen Law Firm has launched a complete NC child support calculator application for the iPhone and iPod touch. This is the first and only iPhone app to offer calculations for all three North Carolina child support worksheets, covering primary, joint and split custody." Read the entire article: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2010/03/prweb3797464.htm By Times Bulletin 3/21/2010 "Here are the three levels of marital fighting: 1. Daily Drama - There is a disagreement and the couple doesn't talk to each other for awhile; 2. Forced Camping - Someone sleeps on a couch; 3. Attorney Contacted - Someone starts doing math the day after they sleep on the couch." Read the entire article: http://timesbulletin.com/main.asp?SectionID=2&SubSectionID=4&ArticleID=158083 By The Star-Ledger - NJ.com 3/21/2010 "...More and more, online social-networking sites such as Facebook are playing a role in the breakup of marriages — whether it’s people griping about spouses or contacting old flames, or matrimonial attorneys looking for evidence to be used in divorce proceedings. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/03/facebook_plays_havoc_in_marria.html By ABCNews.com 3/23/2010 "...My main message is to all those women out there who might have their eyes on some guy that is married to not come between anybody," Cynthia Shackelford told "Good Morning America" today. "It's not good to go in there. It hurts the children. My children are devastated. I'm devastated. ..." Read the entire article: http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Business/wife-wins-million-husbands-alleged-mistress/story?id=10177637 Read the entire article: By NEWS.com.au - Australia 3/22/2010 "DIVORCE has a major financial impact, and it doesn't matter who paid for what when you separate assets." Read the entire article: http://www.news.com.au/money/money-matters/readying-for-the-financial-hit-of-divorce/story-e6frfmd9-1225843542671
By Washington Post - Opinions 3/21/2010 "...A protective order hearing is not initiated by an impartial police officer or prosecutor. Instead, any person can trigger a hearing by alleging abuse. Many people have a case for abuse. Many others may have an ax to grind, such as gaining an advantage in a divorce proceeding. The court must try to distinguish between the two. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/19/AR2010031904328.html By FoxNews.com 3/18/2010 "Do soldiers need marijuana for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder?" Watch the video: http://video.foxnews.com/v/4114243/pot-to-heal-the-pain By Vikki L. Conwell -- Atlanta Journal Constitution - Georgia 3/16/2010 "...Kaufmann is one of a growing number of pro se litigants, people who use the courts without representation from an attorney. With the proper paperwork, clients can litigate simple proceedings such as uncontested divorces between parties who have reached a settlement agreement and possess few assets. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.ajc.com/business/family-law-centers-a-373776.html By CNN.com 3/12/2010 "Police say a mom of four tried to arrange for the murder of her husband of 21 years." Watch the video: http://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/crime/2010/03/15/carroll.juvenile.murder.charge.cnn By Cheryl Wetzstein -- Washington Times 3/12/2010 "Is the Obama administration trying to divorce the federal government from the marriage business? Yes, the White House is ditching the only real federal effort to strengthen the institution of marriage, say some marriage-movement activists, who are already lamenting the loss of the Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood grant program." Read the entire article: http://washingtontimes.com/news/2010/mar/12/the-family-funds-breakup/ By E-Online 3/12/2010 "...Officers on the scene were told by a paramedic that Nordegren wanted to ride alongside Woods but was prevented from accompanying him as the incident involved "domestic violence."..." By True Crime Report – New York 3/8/2010 "Describing the divorce of Peter and Susan Williams as "bitter" would be an understatement. For the past year, they've been fighting over custody of their four children -- ages 11 to 19 -- as well as the assets of his lucrative fence company..." Read the entire article: http://www.truecrimereport.com/2010/03/susan_williams_wealthy_long_is.php By DadsDivorce.com 2/1/2010 "Question: My ex-wife remarried and I have two boys with her, 15 and 10 years old. Her new husband supports her. She has her own cleaning business and makes about $600 per week. But she only reports she makes $400 a month when it to comes child support time. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.dadsdivorce.com/blog/ask-a-divorce-lawyer-remarriages-and-how-they-affect-child-support.html By Gothamist – New York "A Long Island woman lost her $500 down payment, after learning that the hitman she’d hired to kill her husband was actually an undercover cop." Read the entire article: http://gothamist.com/2010/03/06/li_mom_hired_bargain_bin_hit_man_to.php By Leah Ward Sears -- The Atlanta Journal-Constitution 2/10/2010 "...As such, marriage is the most pro-child institution we have. Additionally, married parents report being happier, more satisfied and having fewer emotional problems than divorced parents. For our children as well as ourselves, it’s time for our country to recommit to the institution of marriage. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.ajc.com/opinion/love-yes-but-be-297251.html By David Lapp -- Wall Street Journal 2/11/2010 "When my very smart and relatively young girlfriend (she was then 20) first told her father she was thinking of marrying me, he refused to even hear of it. "How much college debt does he have?" he demanded. "What's the rush? Why not wait until your career and finances are established? How do you know he's the one?"" Read the entire article: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704107204575039150739864666.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEFTTopOpinion By New York Times 2/21/2010 "...An online discussion of how economic changes may be affecting women's marriage prospects..." Read the online discussion: http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/21/for-women-redefining-marriage-material/ By Don Peck -- Atlantic Magazine "The Great Recession may be over, but this era of high joblessness is probably just beginning. Before it ends, it will likely change the life course and character of a generation of young adults. It will leave an indelible imprint on many blue-collar men. It could cripple marriage as an institution in many communities." Read the entire article: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/03/how-a-new-jobless-era-will-transform-america/7919/ By Shelly K. Schwartz -- Special to CNBC.com 2/8/2010 "...“Positive financial behavior can enrich a marriage,” says Dew. “When couples set goals together and they both contribute towards that goal, including financial ones, it strengthens the marital bond.” Indeed, the negative effects of poor money management have been widely established as one of the leading causes of divorce. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.cnbc.com/id/35181405 By ScienceDaily.com 1/31/2010 "...The prevailing theory is that the difference has evolutionary origins: Men learned over eons to be hyper-vigilant about sex because they can never be absolutely certain they are the father of a child, while women are much more concerned about having a partner who is committed to raising a family. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100126123210.htm By IrishExaminer.com – Ireland/United Kingdom 2/25/2010 "The report, entitled Family Figures: Family Dynamics and Family Types in Ireland, 1986-2006, shows that most women now wait until their 30s to have children, that marital breakdown has levelled off in recent years and that when marriages fall apart the child stays with the father in one-in-eight cases." Read the entire article: http://www.examiner.ie/home/family-matters-112895.html By independent.ie - Ireland/United Kingdom 2/22/2010 "...The Economic and Social Research Institute study also found there were more than 10,000 lone fathers - only one in eight lives with their children. ..." Read the entire article: By Cherokee Tribune - Georgia 2/21/2010 "Fewer people in Cherokee County are divorcing, according to court records, but those who have divorced are having more trouble getting child support payments." Read the entire article: http://www.cherokeetribune.com/view/full_story/6419944/article-Divorce-down--but-child-support-a-problem?instance=home_news_left
By Suzanne Fields -- Washington Times 2/11/2010 "Men are marrying up. Increasing numbers of men are marrying women with more education and a bigger paycheck than they have." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/feb/11/the-sexual-devolution/ By FoxNews.com 2/13/2010 "...They'll be among 383 couples celebrating nearly 20,000 years of marriage Feb. 28 at the Cathedral of St. Jude the Apostle in St. Petersburg. Of all the spouses renewing their vows, the Wellens are the longest wed. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,585743,00.html By KTLA.com "Q: Dear Mr. Dad. I'm getting divorced. My spouse is acting horribly and I have to admit that I haven't been behaving much better. I'm angry and I find myself wanting to punish him. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/lifestyle/parenting/sns-parenting-dad-high-road,0,6677067.story By Asia News Network 2/15/2010 "Japan's reluctance to sign up to an international treaty that prevents one parent in a failed international marriage from taking a child of the couple across national borders without the prior consent of the other parent is causing friction between Tokyo and Washington." Read the entire article: http://www.asianewsnet.net/news.php?id=10096&sec=1 By Sierra Vista The Herald 2/13/2010 "State lawmakers are moving to make couples who have decided their marriage isn’t working wait four months longer to divorce." Read the entire article: http://www.svherald.com/content/news/2010/02/13/proposal-seeks-force-longer-wait-divorces By Washington Times 1/6/2010 "...It "supports efforts to assist states and communities to promote and support responsible fatherhood and healthy marriage." ..." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/jan/06/hicks-fatherhood-by-billboard/ By Daily Mail – United Kingdom 1/31/2010 "...Not so long ago it would have been unthinkable, but one woman in five now earns more than her husband or boyfriend. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.fmwf.com/media-type/news/2010/01/rise-of-female-breadwinners-as-one-in-five-women-earn-more-than-their-partner/ By BoxingScene.com - USA 1/30/2010 "Former four-time heavyweight titlist Evander Holyfield recently filed documents in Cobb County Superior Court in Georgia to alter his existing child support agreement with his ex-wife Dr. Janice Itson." Read the entire article: http://www.boxingscene.com/?m=show&id=25009 By Cheryl Wetzstein -- The Washington Times 1/19/2010 "In my years of writing about family issues, I've often encountered a dissing of marriage." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/jan/19/wetzstein-pro-marriage-campaign-grows/ By Huffington Post 1/19/2010 "Historically, marriage was the surest route to financial security for women. Nowadays it's men who are increasingly getting the biggest economic boost from tying the knot, according to a new analysis of census data." Read the entire article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/19/more-men-get-an-economic_n_427863.html By Institute for Marriage and Public Policy – USA "Most of the public debate over marriage focuses on the role of marriage as a social, moral, or religious institution. But marriage is also an economic institution, a powerful creator of human and social capital. Increases in divorce and unwed childbearing have broad economic implications, including larger expenditures for the federal and state governments. This is the first-ever report that attempts to measure the taxpayer costs of family fragmentation for U.S. taxpayers in all fifty states. Among its findings: Even programs that result in very small decreases in divorce and unwed childbearing could yield big savings for taxpayers." Read the entire article: http://www.marriagedebate.com/pdf/ec_div.pdf By Richard Fry and D’Vera Cohn -- Pew Research Center – USA "The institution of marriage has undergone significant changes in recent decades as women have outpaced men in education and earnings growth." Read the entire article: http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1466/economics-marriage-rise-of-wives?src=prc-latest&proj=peoplepress By Washington Post 1/21/2010 "...The big news about this report has centered on the fact that there's been a shift in gender roles. A larger share of men in 2007, compared with their 1970 counterparts, were married to women whose educations and incomes exceeded their own. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/20/AR2010012004769.html?sub=AR By Tulsa World - Oklahoma 1/20/2010 "...The seminar is ordered by the county's district court for parents involved in lawsuits regarding custody, visitation or paternity of minor children. District judges in the other 68 counties may also require the seminar for their divorce cases. ..." Read more about this article: http://www.tulsaworld.com/business/article.aspx?subjectid=15&articleid=20100120_15_E4_Tefmlo712318 By Times Online 1/13/2010 "...Today the average marriage lasts an estimated eleven years. Marriages in the past were no lengthier, but were divided by death, not divorce. ..." Read the entire article: http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/article6986146.ece By Mail Online 12/5/2009 "A wife who cried rape because she felt guilty about cheating on her husband in their home was spared jail yesterday." By FoxNews.com 1/12/2010 "China’s one-child policy could leave more than 24 million men unable to find a bride by the end of the decade, according to a report." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,582831,00.html?loomia_ow=t0:s0:a16:g2:r5:c0.137798:b29754224:z10 By Fresno Bee - California 1/4/2010 "...Fresno County Healthy Marriage Coalition Inc. was awarded the grant from National Fatherhood Initiative through the National Responsible Fatherhood Capacity Building Initiative. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.fresnobee.com/local/story/1769351.html By MailOnline 1/6/2010 "Married couples in France could end up with criminal records for insulting each other during arguments. Under a new law, France is to become the first country in the world to ban ' psychological violence' within marriage." By Mid Day.com 12/16/2009 "A Hyderabad-based women's NGO joins hands with its male counterparts against the Shave India Campaign" Read the entire article: http://www.mid-day.com//news/2009/dec/161209-shave-india-campaign-gillette-AIFWA-uma-challa.htm By New York Post 12/22/2009 "Mary J. Blige punched husband Kendu Isaacs in the face at her record release party at club M2 Tuesday night. The singer slugged Isaacs, drawing blood, after she thought he was flirting with a waitress." By ScienceDaily.com 12/2/2009 "Ninety-six percent of low-income mothers who participated in a recent study on gender-based distrust indicated a strong general feeling of distrust of the opposite sex. However, this general distrust towards men did not prevent them from entering into a marriage, live-in, or romantic relationship." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091202114044.htm By ScienceDaily.com 12/4/2009 " Married people in the United States are living longer these days, but the widowed are experiencing a higher mortality rate, according to new research by a Michigan State University sociologist." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091202153810.htm By BlackVoices 12/4/2009 "...There are other interesting questions in the Tiger Woods scandal, such as whether or not Tiger should have gotten married in the first place, or whether it should cost tens of millions of dollars to get out of a bad relationship. Single men don't have to pay to end their relationships, so watching Tiger cough up millions for doing his personal thing is likely to make some people hesitant to get married at all." Read the entire article: http://www.bvonmoney.com/2009/12/04/tiger-woods-scandal-120409/ By CBS 11 11/18/2009 "With about half of all marriages ending in divorce, many parents are left fighting for custody of their children." Read the entire article: http://cbs11tv.com/local/divorce.custody.hearing.2.1321402.html By Robert Franklin, Esq. -- Mens News Daily 11/25/2009 "...As it stands now, the best we do is presume that a married man is the father of any child born to his wife during their marriage. As countless examples have shown, that presumption is often wrong. ..." Read the entire article: http://mensnewsdaily.com/glennsacks/2009/11/25/paternity-fraud-the-flip-side/ By Gather.com - USA 11/19/2009 "...Based on U.S. Census data, non-custodial mothers are 20% more likely to default on their child support obligations than non-custodial fathers. This is despite the fact that non-custodial mothers are less likely to be required to pay child support. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977909476 By ScienceDaily.com 10/26/2009 "Having children improves married peoples' life satisfaction and the more they have, the happier they are. For unmarried individuals, raising children has little or no positive effect on their happiness. These findings by Dr. Luis Angeles from the University of Glasgow in the UK have just been published online in Springer's Journal of Happiness Studies." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091027101420.htm By NBC Connecticut 11/2/2009 "...Brant, who lists assets of about $490 million, was supposed to start paying his wife of 16 years $270,000 a month in alimony and support for their three kids on Oct. 23. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local-beat/Despite-Divorce-Former-Model-Lives-Good-Life-In-CT-68534322.html By USA Today 11/8/2009 "The engineer accused of fatally shooting one employee and wounding five others at the firm where he once worked is "very mentally ill" and crumbled under the stress of his divorce, bankruptcy and unemployment, his attorney said Saturday." Read the entire article: http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-11-06-orlando-shots-office_N.htm?POE=click-refer By Yahoo News 11/8/2009 "The city of romance got a lesson in love's hard knocks Sunday, as thousands flocked to the French capital's first divorce fair. In France, nearly one out of two marriages ends in divorce, according to the country's National Institute of Demographic Studies. More than 130,000 divorces were registered in 2007, as compared to just 50,000 three decades ago." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091108/ap_on_re_eu/eu_france_divorce_fair By The Washington Post 11/4/2009 "CBS sportscaster Jim Nantz must pay $916,000 yearly in alimony and child support to his ex-wife and give up their Connecticut home under terms of a newly issued divorce decree." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/03/AR2009110303395.html By Dailyrecord.com 10/25/2009 "From driving to shopping to eating out, the punishing economy is changing the way we live. Now, it seems, it's changing the way we divorce." Read the entire article: http://www.dailyrecord.com/article/20091025/COMMUNITIES/91022070/1005/NEWS01 By ScienceDaily.com 10/8/2009 "Childhood cancer survivors typically suffer from the long-term effects of cancer treatment on physical health, and results of a new study suggest that social implications also exist, which may affect their chance of an "I do" at the altar." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091008073308.htm# By FoxNews.com 10/26/2009 "America's sweetheart, the actress Sandra Bullock, is being dragged into an unpleasant legal battle to prove that she is a better parent than her husband’s former wife, the star of more than 100 pornographic movies, the Times of London reported." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2009/10/26/sandra-bullock-fighting-husbands-porn-star-ex-custody/?loomia_ow=t0:s0:a16:g2:r5:c0.073312:b28525367:z10 By Crosscut -- Seattle 10/19/2009 "...Didn’t matter. The prosecutor (who was about 14) demanded that the judge impose a two-year no-contact order, based on the police report — which included at least half a dozen weird, factual errors, including that the altercation started because J “refused to kiss [me]” and that we were recent transplants from the East Coast. ..." Read the entire article: http://crosscut.com/blog/crosscut/19135/# By People.com "As their parents continue to make tabloid headlines – Jon faces contempt charges for taking money out of a joint account, while Kate has just lost the reality show franchise that made her famous – the eight children of Jon and Kate Gosselin are starting to feel the effects of all the stress." Read the entire article: http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20313706,00.html By Mark Johnson of the Journal Sentinel 10/18/2009 "...In fact, Dad was leaving because Mom was sick. In March, he was laid off from his job as a raw materials coordinator for a plastics company called PolyOne, where he'd worked for 20 years. His severance package had provided several months' salary, but by August the paychecks were winding down. Soon the cost of his family health coverage was going to triple, then a few months after that, nearly triple again. They needed coverage so Mom could fight her cancer. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.jsonline.com/news/wisconsin/64677772.html By People.com 10/13/2009 "Jon and Kate Gosselin arrived separately Tuesday to meet with their attorneys and a court-appointed arbitrator to hammer out financial issues in their contentious divorce." Read the entire article: http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20311872,00.html?xid=rss-topheadlines By MSNBC.com 10/7/2009 "...On Wednesday, Jon told ET Online that Kate is trying to change their joint-custody arrangement so that he is only at their Pennsylvania home from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Thursday, as well as altering their agreement for the weekend — a move Jon claims is tantamount to barring him from the birthday festivities altogether. "She's trying to prevent me from seeing my kids on Mady and Cara's birthday," he says. "That's like giving her full custody by obeying her. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33213563/ns/entertainment-celebrities/ By Abilene Reporter-News - Texas 10/5/2009 " Christian leaders seem to be asking themselves for answers on the steady erosion of institutional marriage. Steve Queen, director of First Baptist Church’s Ministry of Counseling and Enrichment, said he wished the state of Texas allowed for “legal separations,” allowing those in struggling marriages to sometimes separate, get child support through a court order and attempt to work things out in the interim." Read the entire article: http://www.reporternews.com/news/2009/oct/05/the-other-side-of-marriage/ By Carroll County Times - Maryland 10/3/2009 " In the quest to strengthen marriages in Carroll County, the Marriage Resource Center has turned its attention to fatherhood." Read the entire article: http://www.carrollcountytimes.com/articles/2009/10/03/news/local_news/6_resource_center_fatherhood.txt By KTLA.com 9/29/2009 "It appears the nasty divorce battle between Kate and Jon Gosselin has taken its toll on the couple's popular reality television show. In a stunning announcement made Tuesday, officials at TLC said Jon has been officially booted from the show and the series will continue on without the father of eight. The show will now be called "Kate Plus 8," the network said." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-gosselin-split,0,3733457.story
By People.com 9/30/2009 "...Behind his abstinence is his fear that Montag might go off her birth control without telling him, he says. "She's not the kind of person who would lie – she would just walk away and not answer the question," he says. "So yes, I'm very concerned. Our sex life has dramatically changed recently." ..." Read the entire article: http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20309161,00.html By People.com 9/29/2009 "Actor Eddie Furlong has recently threatened suicide and was placed under psychiatric lockdown, his estranged wife alleges in a restraining order she obtained against him in Los Angeles." Read the entire article: http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20309124,00.html?xid=rss-topheadlines By CNN.com 9/29/2009 "Kate plus eight minus Jon equals TLC. The breakup of Jon and Kate Gosselin's marriage this year changed the composition of the reality show's November relaunch, the network announced Tuesday." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/TV/09/29/jon.gosselin.dropped/index.html By YahooNews 9/27/2009 "A home-improvement worker and school janitor who apparently was struggling to survive the recession killed his sleeping wife and two children before turning the 12-gauge shotgun on himself, Maryland State Police said Saturday." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090927/ap_on_re_us/us_maryland_bodies_found By CNN.com 9/27/2009 "Clifton Maloney -- the 71-year-old husband of U.S. Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-New York -- died apparently from natural causes in Tibet during a mountain-climbing trip, a spokesman for the congresswoman told CNN Saturday." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/09/26/new.york.maloney.husband/index.html?iref=mpstoryview By AMY SULLIVAN / WASHINGTON -- Time 9/25/2009 "...Birth rates in the U.S. fell 2% in 2008, the biggest drop in nearly four decades, and that trend is expected to continue. A new study out Sept. 23 from the Guttmacher Institute suggests that the timing is not a coincidence; the recession may be to blame, as women factor economic anxieties into their decision about having children. ..." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20090925/us_time/08599192594400 By People 9/25/2009 "Now engaged to Canadian real estate agent Kyla Weber, Vaughn, 39, said he wants to start a family and settle down." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Movies/09/25/vince.vaughn.kids/index.html?iref=mpstoryview
By YahooNews 9/24/2009 "...Divorce is as common in the Florida Keys as fresh grouper and cold beer. Census statistics released this week show that Monroe County — which includes the cluster of 1,700 islands floating off South Florida — has the second-highest proportion of divorced residents. ..." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090924/ap_on_go_ot/us_divorce_american_style By Times Online 9/14/2009 "The divorce laws are unfair to men and multimillion-pound awards are degrading to women, an expert in family law believes. Baroness Deech is calling for an end to the idea that women deserve half of their husbands’ wealth on divorce." Read the entire article: http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/law/article6832973.ece By Oliver Thomas -- USA Today "Til death do we part" wasn't such a big deal when the life expectancy was 30. When it's 80, marriage becomes a tall order. So you can imagine how surprised I was recently to learn that marriage is becoming more resilient, not less. America's divorce rate is down to 36% — the lowest since 1970." Read the entire article: http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2009/09/column-is-secularism-saving-marriage-.html?more?csp=fbfanpage%20 By The Independent 9/13/2009 "A new report confirms that fathers from all ethnic backgrounds are seeking closer, more hands-on bonds with their children. Susie Mesure and Jonathan Owen report on the new multi-tasking dads" Read the entire article: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/features/marigold-man-ndash-how-todays-dads-share-parenting-as-never-before-1786612.html By Trinidad & Tobago Guardian 9/8/2009 "America has become a nation where fatherhood is fast becoming unnecessary and irrelevant in many homes and communities today. Single motherhood and divorced women are not only more celebrated in the media than married women, but fathers and husbands are disregarded even when they are present in the hospital when their child is being born or for the child’s healthcare. " Read the entire article: http://guardian.co.tt/commentary/letters/2009/09/08/plea-dads-get-involved By Hila Raz -- Ha'aretz - Israel 9/9/9 "A businessman who signed three support agreements with his ex-wife convinced a court to throw out his divorce settlement because the woman had exploited his narcissistic personality." Read the entire article: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1113088.html By E-Online 9/10/9 "...Every year in America, hundreds of thousands of men divorce. Sure, Gosselin's more famous than most. Certainly, he's more infamous than most. But at the end of the Vegas pool party day, he's just a guy. Read the entire article: http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/b143326_jon_gosselin_misunderstood.html?utm_source=eonline&utm_medium=rssfeeds&utm_campaign=rss_topstories By Ken Lee -- People 9/9/2009 "...Hefner decided to file for divorce, he says, after Conrad sued him in recent weeks for $5 million stemming from the sale of a home they owned together. He strongly denied that he owes Conrad any money, and that he's faithfully paid her $250,000 a year as promised in a prenuptial agreement. He adds: "I would've been happy to divorce her when we separated, but she wanted to remain married for our boys."..." Read the entire article: http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20303278,00.html By Jean Shin CNN.com 9/8/9 "Asa Hill was 7 years old when he died. Although the boy was pulled out of a burning car alive in a horrific accident on the Niagara Thruway on Thursday, his injuries proved critical, and he passed away the following night." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/09/08/ny.funeral.wedding/index.html?eref=igoogle_cnn By ScienceDaily 8/8/2009 "Fewer black women with postgraduate degrees are getting married and having children, according to research to be presented at the 104th annual meeting of the American Sociological Association." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090810025251.htm By CNN.com 8/25/2009 "I've had a bumpy ride as a single gal and have dated many guys who weren't worth my time. But that doesn't mean a girl can't be a dud, too! Case in point? That tragic and recently cancelled VH1 show "Megan Wants a Millionaire," about a girl who was looking for a rich man to pay the bills" Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/personal/08/25/tf.13.signs.dating.loser/index.html By Huffington Post 8/27/2009 "...When asked what Laffoon does for a living, the actress said, "He goes out to the mailbox and he opens up the little mailbox door and goes, 'Oh! I got a check from Anne! Oh! I got a check from Anne! Yay!'"..." Read the entire article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/27/anne-heche-calls-ex-a-laz_n_270186.html Cheating Husband Admits Infidelity in Sign on Display Outside Virginia MallThursday, 27 August 2009
By Fox News.com 8/27/2009 "A cheating husband is trying to make amends by publicly admitting his indiscretions — in a sign he's toting outside a busy Virginia shopping center." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,543604,00.html?loomia_ow=t0:s0:a4:g4:r3:c0.000000:b0:z5 By FoxNews.org 8/26/2009 "Linda Bollea Sues Hulk Hogan for Her Harley, Wants Him in Prison" Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,542943,00.html -- Los Angeles Times 8/25/2009 "The Obama administration scored a victory of sorts in federal court Monday when a judge threw out an Orange County gay couple's lawsuit claiming that the federal Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional." Read the entire article: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-gay-marriage25-2009aug25,0,3951772.story By KTLA News 8/18/2009 "Authorities have apprehended the person suspected of setting fire to a wedding tent and killing 43 people. Local newspapers reported the groom's ex-wife was the arsonist." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-wedding-tent,0,6729684.story By Yahoo News.com 8/21/2009 "A wheat farm, large plastic letters and his dad's small plane? Jason Kahle thought it had a ring to it. He took his 23-year-old girlfriend, Aleasha Decker, up in the air Aug. 9 under the guise of photographing some relatives' houses in Kalida, about 60 miles southwest of Toledo in northwestern Ohio." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090821/ap_on_fe_st/us_odd_wheat_field_proposal By The Huffington Post 8/19/2009 "President Obama threw a bone Monday to the LGBT activists he first pissed off in June by filing a brief arguing that the Defense of Marriage Act is both constitutional and a defense against incest and pedophilia. The concession took the form of a new brief in Smelt v. United States that now says his administration is committed to a DOMA repeal but -- don't get too excited -- also argues that DOMA itself is constitutional and Smelt should be dismissed." Read the entire article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kase-wickman/obama-talking-out-of-both_b_261414.html By My Fox Boston - Massachusetts - Special Report 8/12/2009 "At the Norfolk County Jail, he was inmate 35634. Foxboro business owner Jim Foley spent two weeks behind bars. His crime was failure to pay his ex-wife $8,500 in spousal support." Read the entire article: http://www.myfoxboston.com/dpp/news/special_reports/paying_alimony_forever_081209 By Fred Silberberg -- Huffington Post 8/10/2009 "A while back I was in court with my female client defending a request by her husband that she be ordered to pay him spousal support. My client was irate over the fact that her husband would even think to make such a request, notwithstanding the fact that her net worth and earnings significantly outgrossed his. As we argued the case to the judge, my client kept telling me that this was ridiculous, a man should not be seeking spousal support from a woman." Read the entire article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/fred-silberberg/whats-good-for-the-goose_b_254808.html By CNN.com 8/13/2009 "A Florida jury awarded a 92-year-old man $1.9 million in compensatory damages for the death of his wife, a former two-pack-a-day Marlboro smoker who started when she was 16 and died in her 70s, attorneys said Thursday." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/08/13/florida.tobacco.award/index.html?eref=igoogle_cnn By Madison Messenger - Virginia 8/12/2009 "The parents of two-thirds of the babies born in Danville in 2007 were not married. In Pittsylvania County last year, 45 percent of the babies were born out of wedlock." Read the entire article: http://www2.godanriver.com/gdr/news/opinion/editorials/danville_editorials/article/more_than_a_name_on_a_certificate/13140/ By Jillian Berman, USA TODAY 8/11/2009 "What's in a name? Apparently a lot, especially if it's your last name. About 70% of Americans agree, either somewhat or strongly, that it's beneficial for women to take her husband's last name when they marry, while 29% say it's better for women to keep their own names, finds a study being presented today at the American Sociological Association's annual meeting in San Francisco." Read the entire article: http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-08-11-change-name_N.htm?POE=click-refer By FoxNews 8/10/2009 "When Margie and Stephen Zumbrun were battling the urge to have premarital sex, a pastor counseled them to control themselves. The couple signed a purity covenant." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,538701,00.html By CNN 8/5/2009 "Don't tell Brad Pitt who or how to love. The actor and star of the new film "Inglourious Basterds" opened up to Parade magazine about his thoughts on love, marriage and fatherhood." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Movies/08/05/brad.pitt.interview/index.html?iref=newssearch By Miami Herald 8/6/2009 "Thinking her husband was dead, a 26-year-old newlywed pulled up to her Boynton Beach town home Wednesday morning in apparent panic. She surveyed the crime scene tape and swarming police officers and began to sob hysterically. A good act, police called it. Investigators say she was the one planning his death -- and they were a step ahead." Read the entire article: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1173481.html By Joshua Rhett Miller -- FoxNews 8/5/2009 "..."It sounds really crazy but I thought maybe there's someone out there who could help me out with a good name," Drummond told FOXNews.com. "I'm running out of names." Drummond — whose six children are 19, 16, 14, 3, 2 and 1 — said the proposal hasn't exactly struck friends and relatives as a savvy financial move. And her husband, Richard, a Navy sailor stationed in Virginia, doesn't even know about it yet. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,537426,00.html . ..." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,537426,00.html By New York Times 8/3/2009 "Married people tend to be healthier than single people. But what happens when a marriage ends? ..." Read the entire article: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/04/health/04well.html?em By Lisa Respers France -- CNN 8/5/2009 "The hit reality show "Jon & Kate Plus 8" returned to television Monday night with a scenario that many families in America can relate to: what happens when Mommy and Daddy separate. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/TV/08/04/jon.kate.new.show/index.html?iref=mpstoryview By FoxNews.com 7/31/2009 "Boxer Arturo Gatti's body was exhumed Friday to allow the Quebec coroner's office to perform a new autopsy at his family's request. The development comes a day after Brazilian police classified Gatti's death as a suicide. Until Thursday, police in the northeastern Brazil city of Recife considered it a homicide, with his wife as the prime suspect." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2009Jul31/0,4670,BOXGattiDeath,00.html By Paul Thompson -- DailyMail - UK 8/3/2009 "Three women exacted a painful revenge on a cheating husband they discovered had been sleeping with them all at the same time - by super glueing his private parts." The angry women lured the married father to a motel where they decided to humiliate him." Read the entire article: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1204038/women-revenge.html
By Tim Nudd -- People.com 8/3/2009 "A rep for former Alaska Gov. and Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin has firmly denied Internet reports this weekend that she and husband Todd Palin both had affairs and are now planning to divorce. " Read the entire article: http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20295502,00.html?xid=rss-topheadlines By Lisa Respers France -- CNN 8/3/2009 "What a difference a few weeks can make. There was a time when fans of "Jon & Kate Plus 8" sympathized with Jon Gosselin, the seemingly beleaguered father of twins and sextuplets whose wife appeared to nag and belittle him before millions of viewers." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/TV/08/03/jon.kate.return/index.html
By Adrienne T. Washington -- Washington Times 7/26/2009 "..."It's about time we had something for men," said Scott Williams, vice president of the Men's Health Network (MHN) and co-founder of Women Against Prostate Cancer (WAPC). "Blue makes sense for men and is a great rallying cry for men and their families. We're excited by the potential for it. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jul/26/true-blue-well-being/ By FoxNews 7/31/2009 "...Robert "Bob" Harrod, who his daughter and some family members say has mild dementia, disappeared from his home in Orange County on Monday — a month after his marriage to Fontelle Heeter, whom he first proposed to 59 years ago. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,535895,00.html By ScienceDaily.com 7/27/2009 "Divorce and widowhood have a lingering, detrimental impact on health, even after a person remarries, research at the University of Chicago and Johns Hopkins University shows. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090727135523.htm By ScienceDaily.com 7/14/2009 "University of Denver (DU) researchers find that couples who live together before they are engaged have a higher chance of getting divorced than those who wait until they are married to live together, or at least wait until they are engaged. In addition, couples who lived together before engagement and then married, reported a lower satisfaction in their marriages. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090713144122.htm By FoxNews.com 7/14/2009 "Living happily ever after needn't only be for fairy tales. Australian researchers have identified what it takes to keep a couple together, and it's a lot more than just being in love. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,532491,00.html By FoxNews.com 7/14/2009 "A South Carolina judge has ordered the closure of a South Carolina funeral home where a worker cut off the legs of a body to fit in a casket. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,532542,00.html?loomia_ow=t0:s0:a16:g2:r4:c0.123885:b26405336:z0 By The Saginaw News Editorial Board 7/12/2009 "...Obviously, our society is moving away from a marriage-minded model for child-rearing. ... Read the entire article: http://www.mlive.com/opinion/saginaw/index.ssf/2009/07/saginaw_county_newborns_get_a.html By Tina Matherson -- CNN.com 7/20/2009 "From the outside, Johnny and Shanna Woodbury looked like the perfect couple. They had been married 13 years, owned multiple properties and were successful managers." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/07/20/bia.strong.black.marriage/index.html?iref=mpstoryview By ScienceDaily.com 6/29/2009 "...Men who had a mediocre relationship had a higher incidence of depression, anxiety, psychological and somatic stress reactions than men with worse or better relationships. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090623090711.htm By FoxNews.com 7/12/2009 "Brazilian authorities detained the wife of former boxing champion Arturo Gatti and formally accused her Sunday of killing him at an upmarket seaside tourist resort in Brazil." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,531770,00.html By Mike Krumboltz -- Buzz Yahoo 7/15/2009 "Most weddings go off without a hitch. But every once in a while, the blessed event gets a surprise twist. This past weekend, NBA star Richard Jefferson's wedding left guests asking a big question: "Where the heck is the groom?"..." Read the entire article: http://buzz.yahoo.com/buzzlog/92812
By Hollie McKay -- FoxNews.com 7/15/2009 "Cameron Diaz is in the "single" status herself, but the 36-year-old starlet still believes that the long-lasting love her parents (who were married in 1969) shared is one of the key contributors to her sterling on-screen success today." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,532744,00.html By Alberto Vargas -- Examiner.com – San Diego California 7/15/2009 "Across the country, unbeknownst to most Americans, many disabled veterans find themselves fighting a war they shouldn’t have to be fighting and they need some help. The issue at stake is the inclusion of disability benefits in the calculation of divorce settlements, where judges – on many occasions – have ignored existing federal law (USC Title 38; Section 5301)." Read the entire article: http://www.examiner.com/x-11974-San-Diego-Community-Issues-Examiner~y2009m7d15-Disabled-vets-losing-benefits-in-divorce-settlements By Kristina Davis -- San Diego Union Triibune 7/16/2009 "...Von der Heyde said Rivera had been barraging her with text messages and e-mails asking her to reduce his $1,200-a-month child support. He was threatening to move back to Puerto Rico, she said. “I said to him, 'It's not me, it's the court order and based on what you earn,' ” Von der Heyde said. ..." Read the entire article: http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2009/jul/16/1m16wife001248-wife-suspect-attack-2-sorry/?northcounty&zIndex=132823
By CNN.com 7/20/2009 "...The Billingses, who were known for adopting special-needs children, were fatally shot during a home invasion robbery, police have said. Their bodies were found in their bedroom, said the court documents. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/07/20/florida.slain.couple/index.html?iref=mpstoryview Adam Kuperstein and Brian Hamacher -- Miami News 7/20/2009
By Steve Helling -- People.com 7/9/2009 "...Woods, who missed much of the last golf season due to a knee injury, tells PEOPLE that he used the break to spend time more solid, quality with his then 1-year-old daughter, Sam. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20290355,00.html By People.com 7/5/2009 "Although divorce papers have been filed, Jon and Kate Gosselin have made good on their pledge to focus on their children, reuniting for a July 4 picnic with their eight kids." Read the entire article: http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20289486,00.html By YahooNews.com 6/29/2009 "Television pitchman Billy Mays likely died of a heart attack in his sleep, but further tests are needed to be sure of the cause of death, a medical examiner said Monday. Hillsborough County Medical Examiner Vernard Adams said Mays suffered from hypertensive heart disease, and the wall of the left ventricle of Mays' heart and the wall of one of his arteries were enlarged." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090629/ap_on_en_tv/us_billy_mays By Joseph P. Kahn Boston.com 6/27/2009 "...What caught my eye pre-Open, though, was a New York Times story on Tiger as father. He and his wife, Swedish supermodel Elin Nordegren, have two children, a 2-year-old daughter and 4-month-old son. There’s little doubt that since becoming a dad - Tiger’s close relationship with his late father, Earl, has been much chronicled - his priorities, if not his putting stroke, have changed dramatically. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/family/articles/2009/06/27/tiger_and_other_father_figures/ By Richmond Times-Dispatch -- Letter to the Editor 6/24/2009 "Regarding Del. Bill Janis' recent Commentary column, "Success Requires Thousands of Fathers": Janis is correct about the importance of fathers, but more is needed than marriage education. Virginia's family law system incentivizes family breakup, fatherlessness, and marriage avoidance." Read the entire article: http://www.timesdispatch.com/rtd/news/opinion/letters/article/ED-GRIGNOLR24_20090623-180404/275810/ By U.S. News & World Report – USA 6/23/2009 "...Check out the Washington Post's interview with Focus President and CEO Jim Daly about his trip to the White House on Friday for Father's Day festivities. Daly's consistently kind words for President Obama are a revolution from James Dobson's decades-long reign at Focus. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.usnews.com/blogs/god-and-country/2009/06/23/focus-on-the-family-president-gives-obama-high-marks.html By Smartmoney.com - USA 6/23/2009 "On television, “Jon & Kate Plus 8” has been a ratings bonanza. But as any divorce lawyer will tell you, “Jon Minus Kate” could be a complex financial maze — with college tuition alone posing a million-dollar dilemma." Read the entire article: http://www.smartmoney.com/Personal-Finance/Marriage-&-Divorce/Jon-and-Kate-Divorce-The-Money-Traps-Ahead/
By Kate Stinchfield CNN Health 6/25/2009 "First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes decades of time together strewn with a minefield of potential relationship wreckers. It's a wonder that anyone ends up walking off into the sunset, hand-in-wrinkled-hand, with a silver-haired mate. What do those geriatric lovebirds know that you don't?..." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/personal/06/25/h.keep.marriage.healthy/index.html?iref=mpstoryview
By People.com 6/22/2009 "If anyone would have a perspective on marriage it would be Robin Wright Penn, whose union with husband Sean Penn has been one long roller-coaster ride. "All marriages have their phases," Wright Penn, 43, tells the British magazine :Psychologies" for its July issue. "It's life. We go through it, if we're married long enough. If you're lucky you grow and you work it out."......The actress had stated her observations after her divorce from Sean Penn was called off last year. Since then, Penn, also 48, again filed legal separation papers in April, only to rescind them soon afterwards. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20286720,00.html By Julie Baumgardner --Washington Times 6/21/2009 "I recently ran into a friend I had not seen in a while. When I asked how life was treating her, she enthused, "We are finally empty-nesters. We are having so much fun! If everybody knew how good it was when the kids leave, nobody would get divorced!" It made me think about how many couples I know who have gotten caught up in the throes of children, career, etc. and ended up throwing in the towel on their marriage. The reality is marriage is hard work. Creating a lasting marriage takes skill, determination and chutzpah. Michele Weiner Davis, marriage therapist and author, has been observing relationships for years. She will be the first to tell you that marriages go through stages and predictable crises, but because people are unfamiliar with the normal hills and valleys of marriage, these predictable transitional periods often are misunderstood, causing overreactions. Ms. Weiner Davis says most marriages experience five stages." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jun/21/baumgardner-hard-work-pays-off-in-stage-five/ By Washington Times -- Editorial 6/21/2009 "Some kids will be surprising their fathers with breakfast in bed this weekend, while others will present a gift inscribed with the phrase, "world's best dad." Some men, though, will only be reminded of the heartache from losing the opportunity to become fathers. They are the third victims of abortion. ...Arthur B. Shostak, professor of sociology at Drexel University, is one of a team of academics who took a hard look at men and abortion over a 20-year period. Their findings shatter the common myth that men are more likely to abandon women who get pregnant rather than support them. Most men in the survey reported that ending a pregnancy was a mutual decision, and only 5 percent didn't support the abortion. However, nearly half of single and divorced men said they had suggested getting married and having the baby. As many as 1 in 6 men are never told about a pregnancy or an eventual abortion. Almost 50 percent of men don't show up at an abortion clinic to accompany the mother on the day of the procedure, according to Mr. Shostak and his team. While in some cases these fathers might fit the stereotype of the rogue who is abandoning the mother of his child, a large percentage opposed the abortion or were too distraught to come along. Mr. Shostak's study found that more than 1 in 4 men equated abortion to murder. A little over 80 percent surveyed said they had already begun thinking about the child that might have been born, with 29 percent saying they had been dreaming about the child "frequently." Fully 68 percent said men involved in abortions "did not have an easy time of it," and 47 percent worried about having disturbing thoughts afterward. Mr. Shostak reported that many men began to cry during his interviews." Read the entire article: http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jun/21/childless-on-fathers-day/
By Orlando News.com 6/12/2009 "He was 19 and she was 14 when they first had sex. The teenage lovers now have been married for nearly 10 years, but as a result of that youthful indiscretion Virgil Frank McCranie is listed as a sex offender on a state Web site. That's because he was an adult and she was still a minor. She reported the crime only after finding out he was having relations with another -- adult -- woman. McCranie, 34, told Gov. Charlie Crist and the Florida Cabinet, sitting Thursday as the Florida Board of Executive Clemency, that being on the sex offender list has caused him to lose at least 17 jobs in the last several years and that his four children, ages 7 to 14, have shared his stigma. McCranie, who now has a retail sales job in Panama City Beach, asked for a pardon to lift the cloud over his life caused what's known as a "Romeo and Juliet" case." Read the entire article: http://www.clickorlando.com/news/19733565/detail.html By TMZ 6/15/2009 "Hulk Hogan's legal team had a slew of witnesses attack Linda Hogan's character today -- because Hulk claims she's been wasting a lot of her 40k a month in temporary alimony on drugs. A hairdresser named Tracy Morgan testified in Florida court this morning that Linda came into her salon and asked to have some checks cashed -- all because Linda needed some greenbacks in order to buy drugs. The hairdresser claimed Linda's favorite drug combo was pot and a painkiller called roxycodon." Read the entire article: http://www.tmz.com/2009/06/15/hulk-hogan-claims-linda-blows-alimony-on-drugs/ By YahooNews -- 6/16/2009 "Sean Penn is taking his Oscar and going home. The "Milk" star has dropped out of two high-profile films: "The Three Stooges" and the crime thriller "Cartel," taking an extended leave from Hollywood so that he can focus on family matters. Sources have said the absence could last up to a year. In May, Penn filed for a request to dismiss his legal separation case from wife Robin Wright Penn. It is the second time he has rescinded divorce proceedings." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090617/en_nm/us_penn_1 By Chad Skelton -- Canada.com - Canada 6/15/2009 "With Father's Day less than a week away, millions of dads can look forward to hearing how great they are.Yet -- at the risk of inciting a lot of hate mail -- I can't help but wonder if at least some of that praise is probably undeserved. And that's because dads seem to be held to an entirely different -- and much lower -- standard than moms are. Think about it. When you call someone a "Great Dad", what exactly do you mean? Do you mean that they are a truly exceptional parent, going above and beyond the call? Or, instead, is "Great Dad" a term you give to any father who shows any interest in parenting at all? One who even occasionally does the jobs (changing diapers, feeding, storytime) that we usually think of as women's work? My wife is often told by her friends and family what a "great dad" I am. And as flattering and she, and I, find that, it also kind of ticks her off. Because, aside from me, virtually no one ever tells her what a great mom she is." Read the entire article: http://communities.canada.com/vancouversun/blogs/parenting/archive/2009/06/15/fathers-day-dads-lower-standard.aspx By Sabrina Broadbent The Guardian.co.uk – United Kingdom 6/13/2009 "Among my group of friends, I was an early casualty in the battle of love and family life. My children's father and I separated when we were 40 and they were still at primary school, a stage when not many of us were doing divorce. It caused a bit of a stir. Yet 10 years on, as we hit 50, a second wave of marital casualties is taking place. For once the clamour and chaos of family life receded, it seems that these parents found not peace but a sadness that would not go away. Was it worth staying together? Perhaps it's like this for every generation. Or maybe we are seeing the end of one kind of family life and the beginning of something better. For too long we have believed that marriage is good, divorce is bad. Two parents are better than one. Single mothers are a problem. But what if single parenting is more harmonious, more loving and more successful than the conventional model? What if two-parent families are a bit of a lie, a shop front for what is in effect single parenting? What if it's wiser not to wait for Mr Right, but to have a child on your own?" Read the entire article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/jun/13/family-divorce By Sissi Aguila -- FIU News - 6/15/2009 "Family roles have changed substantially since the 1950s. Mom now works outside the home. And dad is expected to be more involved in raising the kids. But as parental roles and responsibilities become less defined, psychologists question: Are there essential characteristics of fathering versus mothering? FIU’s Fatherhood Lab explores these issues and Psychology Professor Gordon Finley, who runs the lab, focuses specifically on how divorce impacts fathers and the development of their children. Finley has found that a father’s role is unique and far too often neglected by the family court system. Using questionnaires and a retrospective technique in which he asked 1,989 young adults to think back on their relationship with their fathers, Finley found that children of divorce really miss their fathers. According to Finley, they are denied a relationship with them because of present-day family law and court practices. “Divorce marginalizes or severs a father’s relationship with his child,” he says. “In reality, the father becomes a visitor in his or her life. He is no longer a father in the very literal sense.”..." Read the entire article: http://news.fiu.edu/?p=4372 By Dr. Ada FisherSalisbury Post – North Carolina 6/15/2009 "Sitting recently in the Rowan County courtroom waiting to hear the cases on paternity and child support, I was struck by the overflow of cases, the youth and unemployment of the parents in question and the unfairness of this system to children as well as taxpayers. Men should be outraged that they can be challenged for paternity with or without cause, without rights of recovery, even when they are not proven the father of the child in question. And taxpayers are being fleeced to support children for whom the parents often show little regard or responsibility in their conception and care. A young friend of mine was told by his then girlfriend that she was pregnant and he was the father. Raised to be responsible and believing he was the only one involved with the potential mother, he contributed more than $8,000 to the care and nurturing of the child, disregarding the admonition of his mother and me to get a paternity test. When he did finally get the DNA paternity test, it proved he was not the father of the child. He was stuck with a bill for a child he didn't create and no penalty accrued for such falsification by his accusers — the mother and DFCS. Where is equal justice? On the court docket were several young men being brought up for non-support of more than one child involving more than one woman. There seemed to be no sense of shame in the courtroom. One young man started shouting and cursing at his girlfriend until I intervened and told him to cool it. Several young women had more than one child by different men." Read the entire article: http://www.salisburypost.com/Opinion/061509-edit-afisher By The New Haven Register - CT 6/14/2009 "It was a globe-trotting romance: a handsome American working as a model in Italy falls in love with a Brazilian beauty studying fashion design in Milan. They marry in 1999, settle in the tony New Jersey shore town of Red Bank, and have a son. Four years later, the couple’s relationship begins to change from an international love affair into a diplomatic nightmare. The woman, Bruna Bianchi, took the couple’s son to visit her relatives in Brazil in 2004 but never returned. The boy’s father, David Goldman of Tinton Falls, N.J., has been battling to get his son back ever since. While the Goldman case has been prominent in recent news coverage, it isn’t the only dramatic custody case being fought across international borders. The U.S. State Department says such parental abductions involving American children are rising. There were more than 1,000 new cases of American children taken by a parent to another country last year — a 35 percent increase over 2007, according to the department." Read the entire article: http://www.nhregister.com/articles/2009/06/14/news/b6-custody2nd.txt By Ken Lee -- People.com 6/9/2009 "The ill will from a divorce and custody battle between Kelly Rutherford and her husband has now apparently reached into the hospital delivery room. The Gossip Girl star welcomed her second child, daughter Helena, on Monday, but the actress's estranged husband, German entrepreneur Daniel Giersch, tells PEOPLE he was never notified of the birth, and instead read about it in online reports, some unfavorable toward him. "Media reports claiming that I neglected to attend my daughter's birth are total lies and fabrication," Giersch says in a statement. "I was never informed by Kelly about the birth of our daughter, nor was I invited to attend. In fact, I found out about it through Internet reports like everyone else. Although this sickens me, I am of course overjoyed that our baby was born healthy. I would've wanted nothing more than to hold our newborn daughter for a few moments, and I only seek to coparent both our children." Read the entire article: http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20284221,00.html By Arizona Daily Star - Arizona 6/11/2009 "State lawmakers took the first steps Wednesday toward letting people seeking a divorce to gain a financial advantage by claiming marital misconduct. On a 4-2 margin, the Senate Committee on Public Safety and Human Services voted to repeal a law that requires judges to decide issues of alimony and child support "without regard to marital misconduct." The change would permit introduction of evidence of everything from domestic violence and cheating to wasting money." Read the entire article: http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/fromcomments/296582.php
By Azadeh Moaveni -- TIME 6/9/2009 "My friends Farhad and Mahnaz are the quintessential Iranian couple. They are both engineers with a shared passion for hiking and movies and have been smitten with each other for six years — but Farhad and Mahnaz can't afford to get married because even a one-bedroom apartment is beyond their reach, despite their both having decent middle-class jobs. This reality has preyed on their relationship, compelling them to consider leaving Iran. And they blame the government for their situation. "We aren't lazy, and we aren't aiming for anything so high," says Mahnaz. These days, the phrase "marriage crisis" pops up in election debates, newspapers and blogs and is considered by government officials and ordinary Iranians alike to be one of the nation's most serious problems. It refers to the rising number of young people of marrying age who cannot afford to marry or are choosing not to tie the knot. By official estimates, there are currently 13 million to 15 million Iranians of marrying age; to keep that figure steady, Iran should be registering about 1.65 million marriages each year. The real figure is closer to half that." Read the entire article: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1903420,00.html By Bill Janis -- Opinion --Louisa Republican Committee- Virginia 6/7/2009 "...Social scientists and economists are an argumentative lot. They seldom agree about anything. But nearly all agree on one point: The decline of marriage, and of the two-parent family, is a major cause of child poverty, which, in turn, contributes to increased risks for children and greater demand for social services. The collapse of the family is a pandemic that poses a clear and present danger to all Virginians today.Approximately two-thirds of poor children live in single-parent homes. The collapse of marriage is also a major contributor to welfare dependence, crime, abuse, drugs, failure in school, and teen pregnancy. ..." Read the entire article: http://louisacountyrepublicans.blogspot.com/2009/06/bill-janis-op-ed-from-sundays-td.html By FOX2now.com - Missouri 6/9/2009 " In Missouri and some other states there's real, biological dad and there's legal, non-biological dad. Missouri lawmakers acknowledge the two aren't always the same. A law is now headed to the governor's desk. He paints houses. But a night out with the boys painted a messy future for Tony Galvin a married father of three, "She got my number from a friend of mine at the bar." Galvin says he never met her again, or saw her again. He adds he never had sex with her, "Nooo, never touched her." Perhaps, but two years later the woman had a baby boy, naming Tony the dad. Tony says he never knew about a paternity hearing, so when he didn't show, he defaulted. After his 30 days to appeal ran out, in the state's eyes, he "was" dad. Legal dad. Period. Tony says, frustrated, "They got nothing. And they're just 'you're the dad!'" But Tony got child support orders $674 a month. Prosecutors charged him with criminal non-support and the state took his driver's license. His life? "It ruined it, ruined it. Shut it down and stopped it right then. Of course it ruined my marriage for awhile. She's good now, but she wasn't then."Good now, thanks to genetic testing. What did the DNA test show? "That I was not the dad."..." Read the entire article: http://www.fox2now.com/ktvi-mo-dads-dna-legal-standing-060909,0,3653920.story By Kerry Benefield -- THE PRESS DEMOCRAT 6/7/2009 "A battle over sex education is under way in Sonoma County, pitting a longtime abstinence-only group against California Department of Education officials who say the group breaks state law when it teaches in the classroom. Among the players in the unfolding debate are the ACLU of Northern California, the California Department of Education, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and Free to Be, a Sonoma County group that has been promoting abstinence until marriage for 17 years. Caught in the middle are schools and districts that have hosted Free to Be speakers, including teens, to talk to students about the benefits of abstaining from sex until they are married. “The law specifically requires that all elements of sex education be balanced and accurate,” said Phyllida Burlingame, sex education policy director for the ACLU of Northern California, which has worked for months to keep Free to Be from giving presentations in public schools. “Students (need to) receive a consistent message that is based on science, that includes accurate, effective information,” she said." Read the entire article: http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20090607/ARTICLES/906079971/1349?Title=Sex-ed-battle-heats-up By ScienceDaily.com 5/30/2009 "The research is clear: Adolescents tend to fare better -- academically and behaviorally -- when they live with both biological parents. But when their parents frequently argue, young adults are significantly more likely to binge drink than other teenagers. They also tend to smoke, and their poor school grades are similar to those of their peers who don't have both biological parents at home." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090529212600.htm By CNN.com 6/8/2009 ...On Sunday, the New York Times did just that, with a story headlined "If They Can Find Time For A Date Night..." The gist: if the Obamas — with Mom committed to her various causes and Dad trying to save the free world — can still find time for each other, hey, lame husband sitting on the couch watching sports, time to step it up. The writer suggests that the President has placed an "elbow in the ribs of husbands," while Jon Stewart has joked, "Take it down a notch, dude."....Yes, daily down time and date nights are cathartic and healthy: my wife and I, working parents with two young children, have strived, with varying amounts of success, to find the right moments to put out an APB for a sitter. But in the relationship department, no husband or couple should ever wonder why they're not meeting a standard set by the Obamas." Read the entire article: http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1903306,00.html?cnn=yes
By ScienceDaily.com 6/4/2009 "Men and women may not be from two different planets after all when it comes to choosiness in mate selection, according to new research from Northwestern University. When women were assigned to the traditionally male role of approaching potential romantic partners, they were not any pickier than men in choosing that special someone to date, according to the speed dating study. That finding, of course, is contrary to well established evolutionary explanations about mate selection. An abundance of such research suggests that women are influenced by higher reproductive costs (bearing and raising children) than men and thus are much choosier when it comes to love interests." Read the entire article: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090603101406.htm By Gail Rosenblum -- Minneapolis Star Tribune - Minnesota "...."We found that most of these couples are in romantic relationships and aspire to stay together," said project director Bill Doherty, Ph.D., professor in the U of M's Department of Family Social Science. The federally and state-funded "Minnesota Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood Initiative," was built upon the national Fragile Families Project, which Doherty said, "was a turning point in the way many of us think about unmarried, urban young couples with children. That project put to bed the notion that fathers don't give a rip and women don't know who the fathers are. "Still, the gap between aspirations and ability to carry out those aspirations is pretty high. We designed our project to fill that gap."...." Read the entire article: http://www.startribune.com/local/46321117.html?elr=KArksLckD8EQDUoaEyqyP4O:DW3ckUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUycaEacyU By Coventry Telegraph – United Kingdom 6/3/2009 "PETER NDLOVU has been told he must pay child maintenance to his estranged wife - until the results of a paternity test are known next month. The former Highfield Road fans' favourite was ordered to pay £377 a month to ex-wife Sharon Dee until the test results of her two children are revealed next month. The fleet-footed winger handed himself into the Zimbabwe authorities last week after an arrest warrant was issued for his failure to turn up at court. Nww Zimbabwe reports that the South African magistrate granted in the interim order after Ndlovu demanded a paternity test." Read the entire article: http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/coventry-city-fc/football-rumours-gossip/2009/06/03/peter-ndlovu-to-pay-child-maintenance-until-test-results-arrive-92746-23776217/ By Breitbart.com 6/1/2009 "Former Vice President Dick Cheney said Monday he supports gays being able to marry but believes states, not the federal government, should make the decision. "I think, you know, freedom means freedom for everyone," Cheney said in a speech at the National Press Club. "I think people ought to be free to enter into any kind of union they wish, any kind of arrangement they wish." Cheney, who has a gay daughter, said marriage has always been a state issue. "And I think that's the way it ought to be handled today, that is, on a state-by-state basis. Different states will make different decisions. But I don't have any problem with that. I think people ought to get a shot at that," he said." Read the entire article: http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D98I36VO1&show_article=1
By Dowagiac Daily News - MI 5/28/2009 "....Without a marriage ceremony, neither Melissa nor Nathan could count on equitable distribution of assets acquired during their cohabitation. There is likewise no basis for claiming separate maintenance when the live-in arrangement is terminated. (In other jurisdictions separate maintenance might be called alimony). Without marriage, one partner might not have any say in how the other partner is treated in case of disability nor even be able to visit their partner in the hospital. Without marriage, there is little or no basis for listing the other partner on employer health plans nor for claims to share in retirement benefits. Read the entire article: http://www.dowagiacnews.com/articles/2009/05/28/columnists/dncolumn02.txt
By Chico Harlan -- Washington Post 5/30/2009 "Hillsborough (Fla.) Circuit Court Judge Mark Wolfe on Friday ordered that Dukes, 24, must pay $39,767 in outstanding legal fees for his estranged wife's attorneys. If he doesn't make the payment by June 5 at 5 p.m., he could face 90 days in jail." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/29/AR2009052903095.html
By Hans Bader -- Examiner.com – District of Columbia 5/25/2009 "Memorial Day is an opportunity to thank our troops, and open our eyes to the disgraceful way they are treated by divorce courts. The bias that divorce courts in my home state of Virginia exhibit against males, people who start small businesses, and breadwinner spouses in general has been ably chronicled by Richard Crouch, a prominent family lawyer, in the Virginia state bar publication Family Law News. But what ashames me most as a lawyer is how divorce courts routinely flout our troops’ rights under federal law. Crouch notes that Virginia courts ignore federal law by ordering members of the military to share their pensions with spouses who divorced them after even short marriages: “Something everybody learned early on is that a military wife had to have ten years of marriage to the service member overlapping ten years of military service to divide the pension. However, the Virginia Court of Appeals has adopted the rule that this statutory limitation in 10 USC 1408 limits only direct payment by the military of the former spouse’s half of the pension. Thus a service member can be required by a Virginia court to split his or her military retirement with the former spouse even if it was less than a ten year marriage. Cook v. Cook, 18 Va. App. 726, 446 SE2d 894 (1994).” This contempt for the legal rights of divorced soldiers matters a lot, because soldiers have fairly high divorce rates, thanks to the stresses and strains of military life, such as unforeseen deployments overseas. Usually, it is the wife, not the husband, who initiates the divorce (two-thirds of divorces in America are initiated by the wife, not the husband, although male spouses of female soldiers also initiate many divorces. Most divorces are no-fault divorces. By the way, I am not divorced)." Read the entire article: http://www.examiner.com/x-7812-DC-SCOTUS-Examiner~y2009m5d25-Divorce-courts-harass-our-troops-and-small-businesses By People.com 5/26/2009 "Where do Jon and Kate Gosselin go from here? Even they don't entirely know, say the couple after the heartbreaking season premiere of their TLC show, Jon & Kate Plus Eight, drew a record-breaking audience of 9.8 million viewers. "As many couples do, we are navigating a very difficult time," the couple said in a statement. "Our current situation brings us together around the children and some times sets us apart. We keep our faith that we will make the right decisions for our family." In Monday's highly-anticipated season premiere, the Gosselins came together to throw a fifth birthday party for their sextuplets, but remained unsure about where they stand as a couple following difficulties in their marriage and media scrutiny." Read the entire article: http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20281079,00.html By Cathy Young -- Boston Globe -- 5/26/2009 "IN THE past 10 years, with my biological clock winding down and no husband in sight, I have been asked quite a few times if I had considered having a child on my own. What used to be scandalous is now practically a conventional life choice. This is borne out by a new report released recently by the National Center for Health Statistics. Nearly 40 percent of all babies born in the United States in 2007, up from 34 percent in 2002 and 18 percent in 1980, were born to unmarried women. While unwed childbearing is much more common in black and Hispanic communities, the trend cuts across racial lines; moreover, it is driven primarily by women in their 20s and 30s, not teens. Should we treat single motherhood as "the new normal" or as a problem that needs to be addressed? And what about the fathers? For some, the growth of single-mother families is a sign of female empowerment. If children without fathers fare worse than children in two-parent families, say defenders of single mothers, the answer is better pay for women and better social programs. Yet even in Sweden with its generous welfare state, a major 2003 study found that children raised in single-parent homes were at significantly higher risk for addictions and serious psychiatric problems."..." Read the entire article: http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2009/05/26/single_mothers_and_the_baby_boom/ By FoxNews.com 5/21/2009 "Alec Baldwin is apologizing for making a joke about getting a Filipino mail-order bride that provoked a sharp response in the Philippines. The Emmy-winning actor quipped during a May 12 interview on "The Late Show with David Letterman" that he would love to have more children and that he was "thinking about getting a Filipino mail-order bride at this point ... or a Russian one."..." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,520998,00.html
By Sharon Jayson, USA TODAY 5/4/2009 "Equality is gaining ground at homes across the USA, but the move toward parity leaves some mothers in a quandary; they're ready to share the workload with their partners, but to do that, they'll also have to come to terms with the loss of hierarchy at home. "Women who want to create this sometimes don't appreciate the level at which they must let go," says Amy Vachon of Watertown, Mass. She and her husband, Marc, have become the standard-bearers for a philosophy called "equally shared parenting."..." Read the entire article: http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2009-05-04-equal-parenting_N.htm
By People.com 5/20/2009 "Although they both stated in January they'd try to co-parent amicably, Gossip Girl star Kelly Rutherford and estranged husband Daniel Giersch are facing off in court again in a dispute over their 2-year-old son. Rutherford, 40, who claims son Hermes is in danger because Giersch, 34, leaves the swimming pool uncovered at his Los Angeles home, hired a private eye last week to conduct three days of video surveillance on the German businessman, court documents show." Read the entire article: http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20280159,00.html?xid=rss-topheadlines By Payvand Iran News 5/17/2009 "A new research conducted by Shahid Beheshti University showed that 80% of petitions for divorce were filed by women in the first five years of marriage. Head of the research group Majid Abhari blamed women's power of attorney in divorce as the main reason behind such a great rate of petitions filed by women. According to the research, unemployment, poverty, addiction, and consequently lack of mutual understanding are the biggest cause of discords in marriage. Abhari called divorce the greatest social problems and said that getting married without knowing each other well, sometimes based on puppy loves, disregarding cultural, financial, and religious differences, and seeking to live in the lap of luxury are the major factors in marital breakdown." Read the entire article: http://www.payvand.com/news/09/may/1177.html By Hans Bader -- Open Market.org 5/12/2009 "Obama’s proposed tax increases create a massive financial penalty for married couples, by subjecting them to much higher income taxes than if they had chosen to live together without getting married. (Unmarried people voted decisively for Obama. But as the Associated Press notes, “married people tend to favor” Republicans like McCain). Under the tax increases contained in Obama’s recent budget proposals, a married couple making $232,000 a year would be in a higher tax bracket than many unmarried couples making $370,000 a year. Simply by getting married, a man and woman making $170,000 each would be pushed up from their current level of 28 percent to 36 percent. But an unmarried couple making $340,000 a year ($170,000 each) would be taxed at 28 percent. And a married couple making $380,000 would be taxed at 39.6 percent — not counting certain adjustments that bring the rate to 40.7 percent. (That’s just the federal standard rate. You have to add to that state income taxes (up to 10.3 percent), and federal self-employment taxes, which many small business owners pay — which could result in marginal rates of well over 60 percent)." Read the entire article: http://www.openmarket.org/2009/05/12/massive-tax-increase-and-marriage-penalty-from-obama/
By Rob Stein and Donna St. George -- Washington Post 5/14/2009 "....The number of children being born out of wedlock has risen sharply in recent years, driven primarily by women in their 20s and 30s opting to have children without getting married. Nearly four out of every 10 births are now to unmarried women. "It's been a huge increase -- a dramatic increase," said Stephanie J. Ventura of the National Center for Health Statistics, which documented the shift in detail yesterday for the first time, based on an analysis of birth certificates nationwide. "It's quite striking." Although the report did not examine the reasons for the increase, Ventura and other experts cite a confluence of factors, including a lessening of the social stigma associated with unmarried motherhood, an increase in couples delaying or forgoing marriage, and growing numbers of financially independent women and older and single women deciding to have children on their own after delaying childbearing. "I think this is the tipping point," said Rosanna Hertz, a professor of sociology and women's studies at Wellesley College. "This is becoming increasingly the norm. The old adage that 'first comes love, then comes marriage, then comes baby in the baby carriage' just no longer holds true.".." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/13/AR2009051301628.html By John Bingham --Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom 4/30/2009 "Couples who have children outside wedlock should be automatically married by the State to discourage them from splitting up, a key government adviser is proposing. Prof Julian Le Grand, the architect of a clutch of New Labour policies such as baby bonds, is calling for marriage to be the legal "default" setting for new parents. Without having to undergo a public ceremony or take any vows, they should simply be regarded as married in law as soon as the child's birth is registered, Prof Le Grand, Tony Blair's former Downing Street health adviser, said. Those who later decide to separate would have to go to court to seek a divorce in exactly the same way as a couple who had married formally in church or a register office. The London School of Economics professor, who is also chairman of Health England, argued that the idea would make family units more secure." Read the entire article: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/labour/5250767/Couples-with-children-outside-wedlock-should-be-married-by-the-State.html By Martin Weil -- Washington Post 5/3/2009 "James R. McIlvaine, who was born in Montgomery County and met his future wife at a movie theater in Olney, went on to become a sergeant in the Marine Corps. "He loved his job. He loved what he did," his wife, Sheryl, said last night. "He was proud to be a Marine." Sgt. McIlvaine, 26, died April 30 in Iraq while supporting combat operations in Anbar province, the Pentagon said. He was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force, based in Twentynine Palms, Calif. "He is my hero," his mother, Joanne Ryan, who lives in Purcellville, said last night. "He is my hero, my number one guy."..." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/02/AR2009050202499.html?wpisrc=newsletter By Armstrong Williams -- Opinion,The CuttingEdgeNews.com 4/27/2009 "Recently that the Centers for Disease Control has estimated that nearly forty percent of U.S. births in 2007 occurred outside of wedlock. That number is overall for the nation. It is one thing when teenagers and members of lower socioeconomic classes fall prey to this phenomenon. But the reality of out-of-wedlock births at such a high rate across the social gamut suggests that the problem has spread much wider than ever could have been imagined. This alarming number of out-of-wedlock births across age and socioeconomic sectors signals nothing less than the wholesale disintegration of our American family. Welcome to the dawn of the age of the American Lust Child. Some would question why it matters. What does society care whether or not children are born to wedded mothers at all? After all if the parents are together but not married, or single but wealthy enough to support the child, then no big deal right? Wrong. There is more to raising children than just food, clothing and shelter. There is the quintessential non-material connection that two parents provide that cannot be quantified in dollars and cents, but are just as essential for that child to grow up and become a productive member of society." Read the entire article: http://www.thecuttingedgenews.com/index.php?article=11279&pageid=16&pagename=Opinion By Darryl A. Cobbin -- Huffington Post 4/27/2009 "...Conversations about the impact the economy and unemployment, or the threat of it, are having on relationships are glaringly absent in the media, and it's high time we started a dialogue. Financial pressures wreak havoc on even the best of marriages. Divorce rates hover around 50% and money issues are among the top causes, so we're facing a tsunami of marital crises in this country. We have been enjoying years of prosperity and this is the first time in a long time many of us have had to do without. It's come at us like a body blow, and now we're facing a whole new reality. But we don't have to do it alone. We're all going through it. As a husband and father I always prided myself on being a good provider to my family. A great deal of my identity was tied up with my jobs, and being able to pay for the best "things" in life for my wife and three beautiful daughters. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/darryl-a-cobbin/marriage-and-family-stimu_b_191830.html By CNN.com 4/23/2009 "Lately, a new kind of sisterly love seems to be in the air. In the past few years, Sex and the City's Cynthia Nixon left a boyfriend after a decade and a half and started dating a woman (and talked openly about it). .....Statistics on how many women have traded boyfriends and husbands for girlfriends are hard to come by. Although the U.S. Census Bureau keeps track of married, divorced, single, and even same-sex partners living together, it doesn't look for the stories behind those numbers. But experts like Binnie Klein, a Connecticut-based psychotherapist and lecturer in Yale's department of psychiatry, agree that alternative relationships are on the rise. "It's clear that a change in sexual orientation is imaginable to more people than ever before, and there's more opportunity -- and acceptance -- to cross over the line," says Klein, noting that a half-dozen of her married female patients in the past few years have fallen in love with women. "Most are afraid that if they don't go for it, they'll end up with regrets." Feminist philosopher Susan Bordo, Ph.D, a professor of English and gender and women's studies at the University of Kentucky and author of "Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body," also agrees that in the current environment, more women may be stepping out of the conventional gender box." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/personal/04/23/o.women.leave.menfor.women/index.html?iref=mpstoryview By MSNBC.com 4/9/2009 "David Caruso’s ex-girlfriend, Liza Marquez, has sued the “CSI: Miami” star for damages based upon allegations of fraud, intentional infliction of emotional distress, breach of contract and six additional charges, according to court papers acquired by Access Hollywood. .....In a statement to Access on Thursday, a rep for Caruso responded to the claims. “Last month David became concerned about the welfare of his children and sought court assistance to redefine David’s and Liza’s custodial schedules,” the rep said in the statement. “It now appears that Liza has decided to retaliate by raising false claims against David, which David finds unfortunate since these claims will divert the parties’ and the court’s attention away from the best interests of the children.” Read the entire article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30145441/ By Sharon Jayson -- USA TODAY -- 4/12/2009 "Marriage has turned into quite a quandary for many young adults. Should they or shouldn’t they? Can they escape divorce? Will moving in together forestall a breakup? ...Marriage has turned into quite a quandary for many young adults. Should they or shouldn’t they? Can they escape divorce? Will moving in together forestall a breakup?..." Read the entire article: http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/article/20090412/HUBBRIDES09/90311012 By Gidget Fuentes - Marine Times 4/20/2009 "A decade ago, while serving as a military police officer at Camp Pendleton, Calif., Foster told his company commander that he would refuse nonjudicial punishment over allegations made by his estranged wife accusing him of raping her in 1995 and assaulting her from 1994 to 1998. Her rape claim surfaced amid a bitter divorce and custody fight over their two young sons. Foster, now 35, figured he’d be acquitted at court-martial, where he was charged with rape, aggravated assault and making threats. What Foster didn’t know was that about 90 percent of all general courts-martial end in convictions, either from the jury or through plea agreements, according to annual reports from the Navy’s Judge Advocate General. He also didn’t count on a shoddy defense and prosecution, which convinced a jury to sentence him to 17 years in prison, bust him to private and cap it all with a dishonorable discharge. Read the entire article: http://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/2009/04/marine_foster_042009w/ By Clara Moskowitz MSNBC.com 4-16-2009 "If you want to know whether your marriage will survive, look at your spouse's yearbook photos. Psychologists have found that how much people smile in old photographs can predict their later success in marriage. In one test, the researchers looked at people's college yearbook photos, and rated their smile intensity from 1 to 10. None of the people who fell within the top 10 percent of smile strength had divorced, while within the bottom 10 percent of smilers, almost one in four had had a marriage that ended, the researchers say." Read the entire article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30213316/ By FoxNews.com 4/8/2009 ""An Ohio couple has gotten married in a pediatric intensive-care ward, with their 7-month-old son on a ventilator nearby. Chadd and Melissa Kascsak from Niles in northeast Ohio had planned to tie the knot last year, but their plans were disrupted by the early arrival of baby Hunter. He was born 16 weeks prematurely and weighed just 1 pound. Melissa Kascsak says Tuesday's wedding ceremony at Akron Children's Hospital allowed Hunter to be present, as well as his 7-year-old half brother Christian, her son from a previous marriage. A minister came in to perform the nuptials." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,513217,00.html
By CNN.com 4/8/2009 ""Had she been born a generation earlier, Kim Hoffman might have had a shotgun wedding. As it turned out, she and Steve Miller took the time to plan their dream nuptials -- outdoors, on an organic farm, and with their 10-month-old daughter in tow. A pre-marriage birth certainly wasn't what her father wanted for his only daughter, said Hoffman, of Oakland, California. But seven months into her relationship with Miller, the unplanned pregnancy simply changed life's course. "We would have headed down this path. The pregnancy just accelerated things," she said of the couple's cohabitation, the birth of Sadie and their 2005 wedding. "It was the way it was meant to be." Along with magazine-cover grabbers like Angelina Jolie and Bristol Palin, Hoffman, today a 39-year-old mother of three, is part of a now record-breaking trend of women who give birth outside of wedlock." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/wayoflife/04/08/out.of.wedlock.births/index.html?iref=t2test_livingwed
By FoxNews.com 3/22/2009 "Bruce Willis has tied the knot for the second time. The actor's publicity agency, Rogers & Cowan, says in a statement Sunday that the 54-year-old Willis married Emma Heming in a small, private ceremony at his home in Parrot Cay in the Turks & Caicos Islands." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,510087,00.html
By CNN.com 3/23/2009 "Below is an excerpt from CNN commentator Jack Cafferty's new book, "Now or Never." Jack appears daily in "The Situation Room" on CNN from 4 to 7 p.m. ET. I never presumed to have any more answers about being a parent than anybody else. There are no perfect parents, perfect kids, perfect families -- only degrees of dysfunction. You get up in the morning and do the best you can. At the end of the day you say, "Okay, that wasn't so bad, let's try it again tomorrow." Some of my instincts were pretty good and some of them were awful. I did stay engaged and didn't say to hell with being a father when my first marriage ended. ...." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/03/03/cafferty.excerpt.2/index.html?iref=mpstoryview By Sun-Sentinel.com - Florida 3/12/2009 "When Ann Chamberlain-Gordon suspected that her husband was cheating, she took his underwear to her place of work -- a police forensic lab in Lansing, Michigan. Her husband, a former professional in the Canadian Football League, denied infidelity, but at a divorce hearing in March 2007, Chamberlain-Gordon testified that she had found female DNA on his underwear that did not match her own." Read the entire article: http://www.sun-sentinel.com/features/health/sfl-0312genetic-privacy,0,7089792.story By Mike Fleeman -- People.com -- 3/23/3009 "And the No. 1 thing to do in Montana: Get married! David Letterman, 61, told his talk show audience Monday that he married longtime girlfriend Regina Lasko, 48, before a justice of the peace March 19 in Choteau, Mont. Their 5-year-old son Harry was present at the ceremony. Letterman acknowledged he never thought he'd tie the knot. "I had avoided getting married pretty good for, like, 23 years," he said during the Late Show taping, "and I ... secretly felt that men who were married admired me, like I was the last of the real gunslingers." Read the entire article: http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20267367,00.html?xid=rss-topheadlines By Mike Stobbe, AP Medical Writer, Yahoo News – 3/19/2009 "Remember the baby boom? No, not the one after World War II. More babies were born in the United States in 2007 than any other year in the nation's history — and a wedding band made increasingly little difference in the matter. The 4,317,119 births, reported by federal researchers Wednesday, topped a record first set in 1957 at the height of the baby boom. ....The birth rate rose slightly for women of all ages, and births to unwed mothers reached an all-time high of about 40 percent, continuing a trend that started years ago. More than three-quarters of these women were 20 or older. For a variety of reasons, it's become more acceptable for women to have babies without a husband, said Duke University's S. Philip Morgan, a leading fertility researcher." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090319/ap_on_he_me/med_baby_boomlet
By Marla Lehner--People.com 3/17/2009 "Joy Behar's unmarried days may soon be over. The 66-year-old View co-host says she's considering getting married to her longtime boyfriend, Steve Janowitz. "I have been with a guy for 26-and-a-half years," the comedian said on Barbara Walters's SIRIUS XM Radio show Tuesday. Asked if they have talked about marriage, Behar answered, "Yes."" Read the entire article: http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20266245,00.html?xid=rss-topheadlines By Emily Bazelon -- SLATE -- 3/12/2009 "If you've been laid out and laid off by the downturn and your spouse is still working, how much do you rearrange your family life? Do you assume the hit you've taken is temporary and leave all the old roles in place? Or do you concede semipermanence and take on more household duties, never mind what went before or what it all means? That's a question more couples are facing because the layoffs, so far, are largely affecting men. I put out a call a couple of weeks ago asking for their stories. I wanted to know, specifically, how couples handling a husband or wife's unemployment are also handling what's called the second shift—the work we do at either end of the day to keep our kids and our homes running. The responses suggest that, possibly, the interplay between this recession and "who does what" in the house may be more complex than past data about the behavior of unemployed men suggest." Read the entire article: http://www.slate.com/id/2213485/ By Associated Press -- Yahoo News -- 3/16/2009 "The former fiance of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's daughter says he hopes they can reconcile at some point. Levi Johnston told ABC's "Good Morning America" on Monday that he and 18-year-old Bristol Palin ended their engagement after deciding it would be better if they separated for a while. The two are the parents of an infant son, Tripp, born on Dec. 27. Johnston says the couple needed time to grow up before following through on marriage plans. Says 19-year-old Johnston, "I'd like to get back together with her. I don't know what she's thinking."" Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090316/ap_on_re_us/people_bristol_palin
By Eunice Oh -- People.com -- 3/5/2009 "Vince Vaughn can now crash his own wedding. The actor (and Jennifer Aniston's ex) is engaged to girlfriend Kyla Weber, her father, Ken Weber, tells the Montreal Gazette." Read the entire article: http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20263330,00.html By CNN.com 2/27/2009 "Brazilian model Gisele Bundchen married National Football League star Tom Brady Thursday in an "intimate" sunset ceremony, US Weekly magazine reported on its Web site. ... Bundchen, 28, is the highest-paid model in the world, the business Web site Forbes.com reported last year. New England Patriots quarterback Brady has gone to the Super Bowl four times, winning three of those games." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/02/26/bundchen.brady.married/index.html?iref=mpstoryview By RANDOLPH E. SCHMID, AP Science Writer 2/13/09 "Just in time for Valentine's Day, a panel of scientists examined the mystery of what happens when hearts throb and lips lock. Kissing, it turns out, unleashes chemicals that ease stress hormones in both sexes and encourage bonding in men, though not so much in women." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090213/ap_on_re_us/sci_romance_unraveled By Sharon Jayson, USA TODAY 2/18/9 "Marriage has turned into quite a quandary for many young adults. Should they or shouldn't they? Can they escape divorce? Will moving in together forestall a breakup? ....The average age at first marriage is now almost 26 for women and 28 for men. And a growing percentage of Americans aren't marrying at all: Provisional federal statistics released Tuesday report 7.1 marriages per 1,000 people in 2008, down from 10 per 1,000 in 1986. ....Faced with such numbers, the federal government is funding a $5 million national media campaign that launches this month, extolling the virtues of marriage for those ages 18 to 30." Read the entire article: http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2009-02-17-marriage-campaign_N.htm By Steve Doughty -- Daily Mail - UK 2/13/9 "Couples are less likely to get married than at any time in history, official figures showed yesterday. ...The landmark in the decline of marriage comes at a time of deepening concern over the impact on children of family break-up, step families and single parenthood." Read the entire article: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1143128/Marriage-time-low-church-weddings-halve-1980s.html Fewer than one in 50 single women now marry each year Tara Parker-Pope on Health -- New York Times "The stereotype of the 16-year-old boy is that he has sex on the brain. But a fascinating new report suggests that boys are motivated more by love and a desire to form real relationships with the girls they date." Read the entire article: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/15/inside-the-mind-of-the-boy-dating-your-daughter/#more-258 By Roger Friedman -- Fox News "You’d think after the chaos last year surrounding former Senator John Edwards’ personal life, his wife, Elizabeth, would not be looking for more publicity — or inviting questions." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,487144,00.html By RAQUEL MARIA DILLON, Associated Press "LOS ANGELES – The woman who gave birth to octuplets this week conceived all 14 of her children through in vitro fertilization, is not married and has been obsessed with having children since she was a teenager, her mother said." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090131/ap_on_re_us/octuplets By Cheryl Wetzstein " About 10 years ago, when I started writing about the "marriage renaissance" in America — a phrase I first heard from Smart Marriages founder Diane Sollee — I heard curious comments about the state of marriage research." Read the Entire Article: http://washingtontimes.com/news/2008/nov/30/too-early-to-judge-programs/ By: Brandi Powell "Getting married, only to be away from your spouse for long periods of time isn't easy, as many soldiers know all too well. A recent Pentagon report shows divorces among military couples have increased." Read the Entire Article: http://www.news8austin.com/content/your_news/default.asp?ArID=226387 View All Articles | Discussion  RSS Feed
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