Japan's Cabinet approved a plan to join a global child custody treaty Friday, amid foreign pressure on Tokyo to revise policies some say allow Japanese mothers to too easily take their children away from foreign fathers. Prime Minister Naoto Kan's …
If you and your child's mother are not married when the child is born, you may feel like a second-class citizen. You probably think that your rights are completely contingent upon the whims of your child's mother. You may be …
The extraordinary fight over "parental alienation syndrome" and what it means for divorce cases. The competition to get your favorite disease recognized in the bible of mental health, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, can be as fierce …
Being a divorced parent means being a single parent. One of the most fundamental reasons for the breakdown of a marriage is loss of empathy for a spouse. It can therefore come as quite a shock to newly single dads …
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Divorce can impact a parent-child relationship in profound ways, especially for the non-custodial parent. Author and therapist Sam J. Buser has written a book specifically answering questions from divorced fathers.This commonly asked question is excerpted from "The Guys-Only Guide to …
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While researchers have known that marital conflict can cause behavioral problems among children of school age, new findings suggest acrimony can lead to sleep difficulties in infants.Specifically, researchers found that marital instability when the child was nine months old was …
Divorce carries with it a stigma, a harrowing possibility that life will never be as good as it was. Especially for the fathers, because so often the children are court bound to spend the majority of their time in the …
It seems today that there is no longer a stigma of having a child out of wedlock--not only a trend among celebrities, but also increasingly common amongst everyday couples. Not only a trend seen in the young and poor, it …
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The decision to divorce wasn't an easy one, but unless there's abuse or some other horrific situation it really shouldn't be, especially if you have kids. Still, once you've exhausted all other options to salvage a marriage, once you know …
Mother's Day -- A special day set aside to celebrate our mothers and grandmothers. On the surface this seems easy enough -- buy a card, some flowers and perhaps prepare dinner. It is also a fun day for the younger …
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