Stepfamilies To Uncle Sam: Learn To Count!
We're hearing a lot about the new U.S. Census these days and many might wonder what, precisely, is at stake. For stepfamilies, the answer is: quite a bit.
We're hearing a lot about the new U.S. Census these days and many might wonder what, precisely, is at stake. For stepfamilies, the answer is: quite a bit.
AP | JUDY LIN | Posted 12.01.2009 | Los Angeles
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Til death do us part? The vow would really hold true in California if a Sacramento Web designer gets his way. In a movemen...
AP | PAULINE JELINEK | Posted 11.28.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The toll for a nation long at war is evident in military homes: The divorce rate in the armed forces edged up again in the past yea...
Stephen Viscusi | Posted 11.25.2009 | Media
Losing your job is dreadful, no matter what the reason. In this journalist's mind, it is still better than health issues, divorce, or death -- but t...
Kevin Freking | Posted 11.24.2009 | Politics
Scroll down to watch video of Nightline interview. WASHINGTON (AP)- A Nevada man whose wife had an affair with Sen. John Ensign said he discovered th...
Wednesday Martin | Posted 11.20.2009 | Living
Stepfamilies often experience extraordinary stress as the holidays--with their pressure cooker of "family" expectations--get underway. So, let go of the Three Big Myths of Stepfamily life.
Jackie K. Cooper | Posted 11.18.2009 | Books
There are moments in this story that are so affecting that you have to stop reading until you can see the pages through your tears. Is this contrived? Is this manipulative? Maybe it is, but it is also the true heart of the story.
Belinda Etezad Rachman | Posted 11.19.2009 | Living
You don't have to be Gandhi, Buddha or any other kind of evolved spirit to have a "Peaceful Divorce," but you do need to have the intention to do so.
Tom Matlack | Posted 11.17.2009 | Living
The long sought Alimony Reform battle will likely come to a climax this spring. In January an almost unprecedented 72 State Legislators co-signed a Bill that would make divorce law in MA more fair.
Lori Sokol | Posted 11.19.2009 | New York
Twenty years ago this Thanksgiving, I got married. Two years ago this month, I got divorced. But I am not here to chronicle a marriage gone wrong. I am here to commemorate a divorce that went right.
AP | JENNY BARCHFIELD | Posted 11.09.2009 | World
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 ...
Wednesday Martin | Posted 12.01.2009 | Living