How divorce affects children varies from family to family and child to child. While I could give readers tips on how to go through this stage of life with several pointers, I thought it would be better to hear from …
Two couples in Missouri and California that had hoped to share frozen embryos to create an unusual extended family, instead traded lawsuits Thursday in a legal battle that tests the bounds of child custody law. Both couples are suing the …
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Working parents perpetually agonize that they don’t see enough of their children. But a surprising new study finds that mothers and fathers alike are doing a better job than they think, spending far more time with their families than did …
Ask anyone who's tried it: Sustaining a marriage or long-term relationship is hard. More than 40 percent of first marriages and nearly 70 percent of first live-in relationships fail to reach the 15-year mark, statistics show. Adding in the trauma …
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Issues Unique to Lesbian Divorce "One main difference between heterosexual and lesbian divorce is the very high percentage of joint-custody arrangements in lesbian divorce. Just as many nonparent lesbians continue to be very connected after their divorces, lesbian mothers may …
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Kyle Pruett, a nationally renowned author and an eminent child psychiatrist at the Yale Child Study Center, and his wife, Marsha Kline Pruett, a professor at Smith College of Social Work, who has done landmark research on co-parenting, have together …
Surprise mom and dad, your parenting differences can actually be your strength Read more »
Divorce is traumatic for everyone involved. Adults know that change doesn't necessarily mean things are going to get worse, and often, change is the beginning of something better. However, children don't have the life experience to know this and often …
Two major veterans groups have endorsed legislation that would protect deployed service members from losing custody of children. But their support might not be enough to overcome strong objections from the American Bar Association. via ABA opposed to child custody …
Was joint custody a mistake? Eight years after my divorce, I am a single parent with half a child via Was joint custody a mistake? - Parenting - Salon.com.
Divorce is everywhere. It screams at us from tabloid headlines at the grocery store checkout. It touches us personally when, as adults, our parents finally call it quits, or our own starter marriage fizzles. It's also universally ugly. Between custody …
The Smart Split; Successful divorce doesn't have to be an oxymoron. Read more »