It's the money, honey. High-flying career women who are the breadwinners in their families are nearly 40 percent more likely to get a divorce than cash-strapped ladies, a surprising 25-year study shows. The access to dough makes it far easier …
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While it's shocking front page news that gets our attention like Larry King not having a prenuptial agreement with his seventh wife, the more sensational thing to me is that most people don't really even know who they are marrying …
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Jennifer Rosenstrach loves dinner. Loves it so much that Rosenstrach, a freelance writer and editor, has created a Web site, DinneraLoveStory.com, devoted to “helping parents figure out how to get family dinner on the table.” Loves it so much that …
Not everything fits in a magazine article, even in 8,000 words, and one path of reporting that didn’t make it into this week’s story was how examples of sharing can be found in a most unexpected place — among divorced …
Parents of girls are 5 percent more likely to divorce than parents of boys. Economists first analyzed the data that way in 2003, when Gordon Dahl at the University of Rochester and Enrico Moretti at U.C.L.A., identified that gap, and …
Six years after two young Reston boys were taken to Germany by their mother, the father of the boys still is fighting to have them returned. Gregory Gardner, 38, who married a German national living in the U.S. only two …
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No one wants to think that their family requires family counseling and therapy, but sometimes it really is necessary. A family that is having trouble will benefit from having outside help. Sometimes it just isn’t possible to solve everything yourself …
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As more and more grandparents take on some or all of the responsibility of caring for their grandchildren — more than 80,000 in Pennsylvania, according to census data — family and divorce lawyers say they are seeing more grandparents fighting …
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(This article presents a good argument for why litigants should seek mediation over litigation) Billy Williams already had spent $7,000 on attorney fees getting a divorce when he decided to act as his own lawyer for a custody dispute involving …
When we look at exuberant wedding photos, we never think, “Oh, good! Now those two can get divorced!” But in fact, the right to a divorce is just as important as the right to marry. In a charming, poignant essay …
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