Divorce is an end to marriage -- but not an end to parenting for couples who have had kids together. For them, divorce is the beginning of a new, lengthy relationship that can either be full of tension or cooperation. …
Parties in legal matters ranging from divorce and child custody to business contracts are increasingly opting for alternative dispute resolution to settle their differences. Proponents of this model note that conflicts can be settled more quickly and amicably — especially …
Attitude Adjustment Why Alternative Dispute Resolution Is Growing in Popularity Read more »
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 …
Women breadwinners more likely to split with their husbands Read more »
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 …
Affairs of the Wallet: Financial Smarts for Marriage and Divorce Read more »
At 7, my son loves to read. One day earlier this year, he was flipping through the pages of a children's encyclopedia from the 1990s. He stopped at a glossy photo of the New York skyline that included two enormous …
One child in ten in the United States lives with a grandparent, a share that increased slowly and steadily over the past decade before rising sharply from 2007 to 2008, the first year of the Great Recession, according to a …
Since the Start of the Great Recession, More Children Raised by Grandparents Read more »
With the start of a new academic year -- and a new crop of freshmen leaving home for the first time -- comes the now-inevitable round of articles about the parents who have a little too much trouble letting go …
Every September, millions of parents try a kind of psychological witchcraft, to transform their summer-glazed campers into fall students, their video-bugs into bookworms. Advice is cheap and all too familiar: Clear a quiet work space. Stick to a homework schedule. …
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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 …