As gay couples in New York gear up for the first full weekend during which they’re eligible to tie the knot, someone they hope they’ll never run into has a few words of caution: be careful.
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Spousal Support for Maria Shriver? Schwarzenegger Says No, Then Yes
Call it Public Relations 101: when you’ve publicly shamed your accomplished wife by fathering a child with the family housekeeper, don’t stick your wife with the bill for her own support and divorce attorney.
The Healthland Podcast: Superobese Kids, Parents on Facebook and Betty Ford’s Mixed Legacy
This week on the podcast, Healthland editor Sora Song asks whether child obesity is child abuse. TIME editor-at-large Belinda Luscombe reports that adults are less savvy on Facebook than teens. And TIME senior writer John Cloud …
Unemployed Men Are More Likely to Divorce
Once upon a time, men worked, women didn’t and that appeared to be the equation for a harmonious family life. Now, new research shows how much that truism has changed for women but stayed the same for men.
The Healthland Podcast: We Debate Avastin, Marriage and Spanking
Join us for a lively discussion of the biggest health and science news this week. First, the bitter fight over whether breast-cancer patients should have access to the controversial drug Avastin. Also: should you live together …
The Healthland Podcast: Diets, Divorce and Cigarettes
On the podcast this week: results from a major Harvard study on how to eat right. Also, a controversial new trend in how some divorced parents are raising their children. And finally, the war over government labeling of …
Q&A: Why Commuting Sucks the Life Out of You
Last month, a Swedish study made a splash when it found that couples in which one partner commutes a long way to work (more than 45 mins.) are 40% more likely to divorce than couples who don’t have to travel so far for their jobs.
Children of Divorce Struggle More With Math and Social Skills
Children of divorce have poorer math and interpersonal social skills than their peers, and they battle anxiety, loneliness, low self-esteem and sadness, according to new research published Thursday in the American Sociological Review.
Q&A With a Family Therapist: How Kids Survive Family Secrets
As details continue to emerge about former Calif. governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s infidelities, many are wondering how the revelations will affect his children — not only the four teenagers he has with estranged wife, Maria …
Alaina Giordano, Mom with Stage 4 Cancer, Speaks Out About Losing Her Kids
Divorce is often nasty but once in a while, the details of a particular breakup grab ahold of the soul and won’t let go. One such case involves Alaina Giordano, a mother of two who is battling Stage 4 breast cancer. On April 25 Giordano lost custody of her children, when a judge ruled that they would need to relocate from their Durham, …
Should a Mother Lose Custody of Her Kids Because She Has Cancer?
Alaina Giordano was already engaged in a battle royale, fighting Stage 4 breast cancer, when her struggle intensified recently: a judge ruled that the N.C. woman must give up custody of her two children to her husband, who lives in Chicago, in part because “children who have a parent with cancer need more contact with the non-ill parent.”
Are Mom and Dad’s Problems Keeping Baby Up at Night?
Kids may be blamed for wreaking havoc on parents’ quality of life, but what goes around comes around: new research shows that parents who aren’t getting along can affect their children’s sleep quality.
Should a Disabled Mom Be Banned from Seeing Her Kids?
There are laws in this country about not discriminating against people with disabilities. So I find it completely confusing that Abbie Dorn, who was left brain-damaged after the birth of her triplets in 2006, has been …