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PARIS — The city of romance got a lesson in love's hard knocks Sunday, as thousands flocked to the French capital's first divorce fair. In Fran...
Washington Post | Theresa Vargas | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics
As the debate over legalizing same-sex marriage in the District grows louder and more polarized, there are people whose support for the proposal is pe...
Jill Brooke | Posted 11.07.2009 | Living
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.
Karen Thalacker | Posted 11.04.2009 | Entertainment
Whether it's the Gosselins or your next door neighbors, there is a lot to feel bad about when a marriage ends. I, for one, hope that people cut Kate a little slack.
Philip N. Cohen | Posted 11.04.2009 | Living
Sociologists have long considered suicide to be the gold standard measure of psychological wellbeing. Now we have a long-term study that finds that marriage protects men more than women from themselves.
Lisa Earle McLeod | Posted 11.05.2009 | Living
After talking with literally thousands of women, especially mothers, I can tell you - every time a woman has to badger a man to become more engaged, a little piece of her heart breaks.
Wednesday Martin | Posted 11.03.2009 | Living
Shunting the husband/wife relationship to the back burner whenever the stepchildren are around is, it turns out, a recipe for marital and step-family disaster.
Dr. Sasha Galbraith | Posted 10.29.2009 | Business
More than half of the women in a recent survey said they take on significantly more responsibility for house and family, but only 28 percent of men saw it that way.
Lauren Mackler | Posted 10.26.2009 | Living
Nearly 50% of all marriages end in divorce. Why do so many marriages fall apart, and how can you stop the destructive patterns that turn relationships into battlefields?
Bella DePaulo | Posted 10.24.2009 | Living
I'll highlight some remarkable and conventional-wisdom-defying findings from the report that were published but never headlined.
Mary Jo Eustace | Posted 10.23.2009 | Living
Should a nice Canadian gal sell her soul "just a little" to rake up a few thousand more book sales or take the high road, hoping her message won't get lost in the din of the circus that surrounds her?
Emma Ruby-Sachs | Posted 10.21.2009 | Politics
Rosie and Kelli are in the midst of what should be a pretty normal problem. But the legal protections for divorce, like for so many other issues, leave LGBT people out.
Therese Borchard | Posted 10.19.2009 | Living
It's worth investigating what makes a real Brady family tick because approximately half of all marriages in the US each year are remarriages for one or both partners and 65 percent of them involve children from a previous relationships.
Lauren Mackler | Posted 10.09.2009 | Living
To what can we attribute feelings toward our partners that are emotionally overpowering? And why do we often react so strongly to the end of a relationship?
HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 10.08.2009 | Business
Mary McCurnin and Ron Bednar's divorce papers have arrived in the mail. The Rancho Cordova, Calif. couple wasn't having marital trouble -- they still ...
Jacob M. Appel | Posted 10.07.2009 | Politics
An unlikely alliance of trial lawyers and Christian fundamentalists continues to defend the prerogative of jilted spouse to turn love triangles into quadrangles--with the state judicial system as a fourth wheel.
Jeanne Kelly | Posted 10.07.2009 | Living
As a single mom with a 15 year old I'm going to tell you a little story of how my life almost went down the toilet, and how you can prevent what happened to me from happening to you too.
Tina Traster | Posted 10.01.2009 | Living
Who among us wouldn't thrill at the idea of humiliating not only a man who is behind on child support but inadvertently shaming his children, who would get to watch him collared on national television?
Anne Hill | Posted 09.29.2009 | Living
In the years since my divorce, I have learned a thing or two about surviving the breakup of a long-term marriage. Not from self-help books, but from my friends.
HuffingtonPost | Julian Hattem | Posted 09.28.2009 | Business
As part of the Huffington Post's efforts to bear witness to the effects of the current economic environment on ordinary Americans, we're rounding up s...
Belinda Etezad Rachman | Posted 09.24.2009 | Living
Since the subject of sexual abuse of children is in the news, it might be a good time to review some of the signs and symptoms of child sexual abuse.
Tina Traster | Posted 09.24.2009 | Living
In America, fathers who can't pay child support are "deadbeats" rather than men who have become overwhelmed or sabotaged by unreasonable financial obligations ordered by family court judges.
AP | TAMARA LUSH and DEANNA MARTIN | Posted 09.24.2009 | Style
ISLAMORADA, Fla. — It's easy to see why bookkeeper Linda Mortimer moved to the Florida Keys 20 years ago: the impossibly blue water, the year-ro...
Belinda Etezad Rachman | Posted 09.23.2009 | Living
There is only one sure bet about divorce, and that is this: hiring a divorce lawyer will only make things more expensive and nasty.
Christine Hassler | Posted 09.22.2009 | Living
No matter how old you are the divorce of your parents is difficult, so allow yourself to feel whatever you are feeling. You may chronologically be an adult but this may trigger very childlike feelings and memories.
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AP | JENNY BARCHFIELD | Posted 11.09.2009 | World