With the smugness of someone in the winner's circle, MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski churlishly chastised women for not having babies while also having careers. Her commentary lacked any compassion for the many women who desperately wanted husbands and children, but fate -- not desire -- worked against them.

As...

Rarely when fathers seek full custody of a child are the facts so stacked against the mother as in the case between "Monster Garage" star Jesse James and his ex-wife, porn star Janine Lindemulder. The couple are battling in court for custody of 5-year-old daughter Sunny. Not only is Lindemulder...

At the National Enquirer rumor station, which pumps out more toxic fumes than Exxon, it was reported that Elizabeth Edwards wants to divorce her husband John Edwards because she now thinks he was a serial cheater vs. just having had an indiscretion with Rielle Hunter. An indiscretion I may add...

Okay all you brides and grooms getting married this September. It's time for a change. And that change is to banish the words "Till Death Do Us Part" from your wedding vows.

The words "Till Death Do Us Part" have defined how we look at marriage for generations. But in...

Banner headlines and breathy stories beamed the news that Celine Dion was pregnant at 41 with another child. Immediately, news outlets paraded a list of other age-defying, fabulous-looking celebrities who had babies post-40, as though this is as easy to do as baking a cherry pie. But the truth is...

How do I spice up my married life?

Instead of consulting the Kama Sutra, I leaf through Ina Garten's Barefoot Contessa and my husband is served something hot and steamy. And really delicious. It could be a fleshy peach soaking in a bed of cinnamon and honeyed syrup for...

If divorce is in the future of duplicitous two-timers Gov. Mark Sanford to reality TV's Jon Gosselin, these men will have to navigate co-parenting. However, a growing trend shows that many men become better parents post-divorce, to the surprise of ex-wives who find it difficult to grasp that a man...

I have two friends who had to make the heartbreaking decision to fly to Kansas for a late term abortion. These were not women who were sloppy with birth control or didn't desperately want to have children. As with many of the women who visited Dr. George Tiller, they had...

It is fitting that one of my financial "aha" moments came about because of a wallet.

When I lost my adored embossed bubblegum pink leather wallet from the designer Karen Cullen I was momentarily depressed because I couldn't justify, with my reduced circumstances,
a reason to repurchase...

Going into card stores around Mother's Day had always been such a challenge. Hallmark doesn't offer a card that says, "Mom, you really let me down. Why didn't you do a better job?"

Instead the display of cards are full of praise for perfect mothers, mothers who didn't neglect gymnastics...

Let me tell you why I think forgiveness is overrated. When your life has been rocked by a wicked injustice, well-meaning friends, clergy and therapists will inevitably retrieve from their tattered dog-eared bibles, snappy quote books or psych 101 texts how you really need to embrace forgiveness to move on....

There is something poignant and symbolic that Robyn Gibson, the loyal, dutiful wife of actor Mel Gibson, chose Easter weekend to file divorce papers after 28 years of marriage. With Easter representing resurrection, maybe this is a new beginning for her.

When she met her husband, then a struggling...

The other day I was speaking to an ex-wife whose husband had lost his job and asked for what is known in the divorce business as a modification. This means the spouse -- usually the husband -- goes back to court to modify the alimony and custody payments that were...

Let's just start by saying that I think Cindy Crawford is a beautiful woman whose nude shots in Allure magazine are more than alluring. Yes, they do affirm that a firm body is feasible for some of us forty-plus types and that is fabulous. But what I'm lathered up...

There's no replacing mommy. It is one of those truisms that resonate when your mother is no longer available for hugs, a plate of chocolate chip cookies or the reliable oohs and aahs you come to expect when you come home with a math score or conquest at the soccer...

Who were the undisputed champs of the Conservative Political Action Conference? Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh - two unmarried people without any children. Can they really represent the Republican Party - especially one that promotes itself as the pro-family party - without this experience?

I don't think so.

Being a good girl doesn't help our species. Yes ladies, it turns out that in fish, if the female isn't promiscuous, the sperm and their offspring are impacted -- or to put it more delicately -- not impacted enough.

Now we all know the importance of the fast-swimming sperm and...

When Barack Obama is inaugurated next Tuesday, he will be the first African-American and interracial president in our nation's history. However, he is a product of another blend as well: a blended family. Obama is a child of divorce, and grew up with a stepparent and a half-sibling. This experience,...

Because pain makes you self-centered, we have divorce stories where a man wants his kidney back from his ex-wife and an ex-wife spikes her daughter's teddy bear with a listening device to spy on her ex-husband.

Yes folks this is the reality of what happens in divorce...

Who says that Hollywood marriages are always short? Not this year. After looking over the celebrity divorces that were either filed or finalized in 2008, I calculated the median length of marriage for the 40 break-ups we covered at the divorce site Firstwivesworld.com, and made a...