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By Barbara Glesner Fines, Robert E. Oliphant, and Nancy Ver Steegh (William Mitchell College of Law).

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Last Entry: April 01, 2011 at 15:18:00

Wouldn?t It Be Nice?

Posted on June 14, 2010
Nearly all of my friends had the following news story as their status message, along with something like ?I wish I lived in Sweden?.? Anecdotally, demand for real paternity leave is high. From The New York Times: From trendy central...

Marriage May Be Hazardous to Your Health

Posted on June 14, 2010
I knew it! From CNN: A new study from Ohio State University shows just how physically harmful it can be to argue the wrong way. In the study, 37 married couples were brought into a hospital research lab, and a...

Puppy Love?

Posted on June 13, 2010
The New York Times recently ran an article about loving your significant other like your pet. Skeptical? Interested? The article is available here. MR

Too Good To Be True? It Might Be.

Posted on June 13, 2010
Many people might marry through online dating, but this Washington Post story might support more traditional dating: It took awhile, but the 24-year-old now knows exactly what kind of message to send to pique a woman's interest. The Montreal research...

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Russians and Prenups

Posted on June 12, 2010
Some interesting observations from the Moscow Times about the societal view of prenuptial agreements in Russia: According to official state data, of the nearly 1.2 million Russian couples who registered marriages in 2009, only about 25,000 ? or about 2...

Constable: "The Commodification of Intimacy: Marriage, Sex, and Reproductive Labor"

Posted on June 11, 2010
Nicole Constable (University of Pittsburgh) has posted The Commodification of Intimacy: Marriage, Sex, and Reproductive Labor, 38 Annual Review of Anthropology (2009). Here is the abstract: Over the past three decades, scholars have paid greater attention to the intensification and...

Obesity's Complications on Childbearing

Posted on June 11, 2010
The New York Times highlights the growing problem obesity poses for childbearing: As Americans have grown fatter over the last generation, inviting more heart disease, diabetes and premature deaths, all that extra weight has also become a burden in the...

Study on Helicopter Parents

Posted on June 10, 2010
USA Today recently had an article about helicopter parents: They may be the only ones to whom this will be news, but "helicopter parents" ? those who forever hover over and intervene in their child's life ? produce children who...

Surrogate Motivations - Money or Mitzvah?

Posted on June 10, 2010
Interesting piece in the Jewish Exponent on what motivates women to become surrogates: What motivates a surrogate mother to carry a baby that is not genetically related to her through nine months of pregnancy, only to give the child up...

Census Divorce Statistics

Posted on June 09, 2010
From USA Today: More than 70% of those who married since 1970 celebrated a 10th anniversary. That statistic ? one of many released Wednesday by the U.S. Census ? shows that divorce itself has stabilized in recent decades, neither rising...

Open Access to Adoption Records

Posted on June 09, 2010
From the Chicago Sun Times on Illinois' new open access to birth records legislation: In a room full of adoptive parents, children and birth parents, Gov. Quinn signed a law Friday designed to let adult adoptive children finally get their...

School Expulsion for Marriage

Posted on June 08, 2010
A Pakistani boy has been expelled from school for marrying at the age of 13 so that he would not share intimate details of married life with classmates. Read the story here. MR

Young Couple with Toddler Learn They Are Brother and Sister

Posted on June 08, 2010
Surprising story of a young couple suing a judge and psychologist after learning they are half-siblings: A young Irish couple with a toddler have been left devastated after reportedly finding out they are, in fact, half brother and sister. The...

St?pie?-Sporek & Ryznar: ?The Legal Treatment of Cohabitation in Poland and the United States?

Posted on June 07, 2010
Anna St?pie?-Sporek (University of Gda?sk School of Law) and Margaret Ryznar have posted The Legal Treatment of Cohabitation in Poland and the United States on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The increasing popularity of cohabitation, as manifested in the recent...

Study Suggests Kids Raised by Lesbians Have Fewer Behavioral Issues

Posted on June 07, 2010
From CNN: A nearly 25-year study concluded that children raised in lesbian households were psychologically well-adjusted and had fewer behavioral problems than their peers. The study, published Monday in the journal Pediatrics, followed 78 lesbian couples who conceived through sperm...

Hunger Strikes and Child Support

Posted on June 06, 2010
Could they possibly be related? A Tooele County man behind bars, is on a hunger strike, starving himself because he says he cannot get justice in the court system. Kenyon Eastin says he's not a deadbeat Dad, just misunderstood. The...

World Bank's Loans for Reproductive Issues

Posted on June 05, 2010
The World Bank is lending money to 58 countries to address worldwide fertility rates and high maternal deaths in third world countries. From Medical News Today: During the release of its five-year plan to help drive down high maternal death...

Religion & Fertility Treatments

Posted on June 04, 2010
The Wall Street Journal recently printed a fascinating editorial discussing Judaism and the children resulting from egg donation: What does a Jewish child need most from a mother? Forget about the chicken soup?it's all about the eggs, say a growing...

Fox: "Choosing Your Child's Race"

Posted on June 04, 2010
Dov Fox has posted "Choosing Your Child's Race" (forthcoming Hastings Women's Law Journal) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: This short essay refects remarks presented at a symposium on "Regulating Reproductive Technologies" at Hastings College of Law. My topic was...

Low European Fertility Rates

Posted on June 03, 2010
New statistics show continued low fertility rates in European countries, where some laws aim to increase fertility. No doubt, there are many modern forces contributing to a difficult environment for child-bearing and -raising, including rising costs to doing so...

Would-Be Child Brides Publicly Beaten

Posted on June 03, 2010
From the New York Times: The two Afghan girls had every reason to expect the law would be on their side when a policeman at a checkpoint stopped the bus they were in. Disguised in boys? clothes, the girls, ages...

Interracial Marriage Statistics

Posted on June 02, 2010
From CBS News: (AP) Melting pot or racial divide? The growth of interracial marriages is slowing among U.S.-born Hispanics and Asians. Still, blacks are substantially more likely than before to marry whites. The number of interracial marriages in the U...

Marriage Therapist Sued for Encouraging Affairs!

Posted on June 02, 2010
Marriage therapists, or perhaps therapy-seeking couples, beware: A young couple are suing their therapist for $8 million - insisting he almost destroyed their marriage by encouraging them to have affairs. Guido Venitucci, a TV star in Rome who also appeared...

Markel, Leib, & Collins: ?Rethinking Criminal Law and Family Status?

Posted on June 01, 2010
Dan Markel (Florida State University College of Law), Ethan J. Leib (University of California-Hastings College of the Law), & Jennifer M. Collins (Wake Forest University-School of Law) have posted Rethinking Criminal Law and Family Status, 119 Yale Law Journal 1864...

Mom Finds Her Kidnapped Kids on Facebook

Posted on June 01, 2010
From Fox News: A father is behind bars, arrested for allegedly kidnapped his own children from California 14 years ago, and bringing them to Central Florida to live. For years, investigators have been searching for him, but it was the...

Parents with Autistic Children Not Likelier to Divorce

Posted on May 31, 2010
There have been many suggestions over the years that parents with autistic children were more likely to divorce, perhaps due to an added strain on the marriage. However, new research reports that 64% of children with an autism spectrum disorder...

Happy Memorial Day

Posted on May 31, 2010

McClain: "Marriage Pluralism in the United States: On Civil and Religious Jurisdiction and the Demands of Equal Citizenship"

Posted on May 30, 2010
Linda McClain (Boston University School of Law) has posted "Marriage Pluralism in the United States: On Civil and Religious Jurisdiction and the Demands of Equal Citizenship" on SSRN. Here is the abstract: ?Legal pluralism? is hot, particularly in family law...

Non-Moms on the Supreme Court

Posted on May 29, 2010
The New York Times recently ran an interesting article prompted by Elena Kagan?s nomination to the Supreme Court as a non-mom. The author writes: ?I wish she were a mother,? a feminist friend said when Kagan was nominated. ?This sends...

New Male Contraceptive?

Posted on May 28, 2010
From CBS News: The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has awarded a $100,000 grant to a couple of researchers investigating the use of ultrasound as a reversible male contraceptive. The technique already works on rats, according to James Tsuruta, of...

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