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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

Child Spending and Taxation

Posted on August 22, 2010
The Washington Post recently ran on op-ed piece arguing for increased tax breaks for having and raising children. The article reproduces some interesting new government data on the cost of raising children. Among the government's most interesting reports is one...

A $9k Proposal

Posted on August 21, 2010
The cost of getting too creative: losing the ring. Read about it here. MR

Family Law Changes in British Columbia

Posted on August 20, 2010
British Columbia may be seeing big changes in its family law soon. Read about it here. MR

Believing in Your Choice

Posted on August 20, 2010
From the Vancouver Sun: Married Americans overwhelmingly believe they married the right person but not all of them believe in the idea of soul mates. A Marist poll showed that 97 percent of men and 94 percent of women are...

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Puberty Begins for Some Girls at Age 7

Posted on August 19, 2010
This may have some implications for families and family law. Read more here. MR

The Effect of New Studies on Gay Adoption Bans

Posted on August 19, 2010
From the New York Times blog on parenting, a call to end gay adoption bans: Data drives policy. Or, at least, it should. In recent months there have been several studies suggesting that children raised by same-sex couples are certainly...

Setting Personalities

Posted on August 18, 2010
A study forthcoming in the journal of Social Psychological and Personality Science suggests our personalities are set by 1st grade. Read more here. MR

Paychecks and Adultery

Posted on August 18, 2010
A new study shows that men are far more likely to cheat on women who make more than they do. Men who are completely economically dependent on their female partners are five times more likely to cheat than men in...

Smoking in Car Child Abuse?

Posted on August 17, 2010
The Chairman of the Royal College of General Practitioners in England has called smoking in a car with children child abuse. He urged parents, mothers-to-be, the obese, smokers, and drinkers to turn into healthy role models for their children. Read...

Wasserman: "DOMA and the Happy Family: A Lesson in Irony"

Posted on August 17, 2010
Rhonda Wasserman (University of Pittsburgh School of Law) has posted "DOMA and the Happy Family: A Lesson in Irony" (forthcoming California Western International Law Journal) on SSRN. Here is the abstract. In enacting the Defense of Marriage Act, Congress chose...

Stay Issued in Perry

Posted on August 17, 2010
A panel of 9th Circuit judges just ruled that same-sex couples cannot marry in California pending the appeal of Perry v. Schwarzenegger. The court also expedited the briefing schedule, and directed the briefing to include a discussion of standing. Read...

Dirty Road Rage

Posted on August 16, 2010
Note to parents: don?t smear your child?s dirty diaper on another?s windshield. Read about it here. MR

Weaver: "Family and Race in Post-Obama America"

Posted on August 16, 2010
Jessica Dixon Weaver (SMU School of Law) has posted "Family and Race in Post-Obama America" on SSRN. Here is the abstract. Two years after the election of the first African-American President of the United States of America, a noticeable change...

Divorce Insurance

Posted on August 15, 2010
From the NY Times online edition: SafeGuard Guaranty Corp., an insurance start-up based in North Carolina, recently released what it?s billing as the first world?s first divorce insurance product. Here?s how its WedLock product works. The casualty insurance is designed...

Unhappily Married

Posted on August 14, 2010
The New York Times recently had an article about couples who remain perpetually separated, but do not divorce. Read it here. MR

Call for Papers--The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth

Posted on August 13, 2010
The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth invites submissions of papers dealing with issues concerning children and youth both in the United States and around the globe. This interdisciplinary journal publishes materials relating to both historical and contemporary...

"Friendly Divorce"?

Posted on August 13, 2010
From USA Today: When John Jarvis visits his 13-year-old daughter, he stays in the guest room of his ex-wife's house. Bob Murphy of Chandler, Ariz., offered his ex-wife a key to his house when they divorced earlier this year after...

Nomenclature

Posted on August 12, 2010
From AP: TRENTON, N.J. ? A New Jersey couple who gave their children Nazi-inspired names should not regain custody of them, a state appeals court ruled Thursday, citing the parents' own disabilities and the risk of serious injury to their...

Utah Supreme Court Overturns Jeffs Conviction

Posted on August 12, 2010
From CNN: The Utah Supreme Court has reversed Warren Steed Jeffs' two convictions on charges of rape as an accomplice and ordered a new trial, saying that instructions given to jurors were erroneous. Jeffs, the "prophet" of the Fundamentalist Church....

Stay Denied in Prop 8 Case

Posted on August 12, 2010
The federal judge in California who recently ruled Proposition 8 unconsitutional in Perry v. Schwarzenegger has just denied a motion to stay his judgment pending appeal to the Ninth Circuit, meaning that same-sex couples can begin marrying after August 18...

Meers & Strober: ?Getting to 50/50: How Working Couples Can Have It All by Sharing It All?

Posted on August 11, 2010
For working couples balancing parenthood, there is a new book by Sharon Meers & Joanna Strober: Getting to 50/50: How Working Couples Can Have It All by Sharing It All. An editorial by one of the authors notes: The Project...

Wisconsin Appellate Court Allows Suit Over Death of Fetus

Posted on August 11, 2010
From the Chicago Tribune: A Wisconsin man can sue a former girlfriend's insurer for the wrongful death of a fetus, which was stillborn after the woman was in a car accident. Shannon Tesar, the father of the fetus, says the...

Osterbacka, Merz & Zick: "Human Capital Investments in Children: A Comparative Analysis of the Role of Parent-Child Shared Time in Selected Countries"

Posted on August 10, 2010
Eva Osterbacka (Abo Akademi University), Joachim Merz (Leuphana University) and Cathleen Zick (University of Utah) have posted "Human Capital Investments in Children: A Comparative Analysis of the Role of Parent-Child Shared Time in Selected Countries" on SSRN...

Call for Participation

Posted on August 10, 2010
The Journal of Civil Rights and Economic Development and The Ronald H. Brown Center for Civil Rights and Economic Development present: Legal, Secular, and Religious Perspectives on Marriage Equality/Marriage Protection/Same - Sex Marriage Friday, November 12, 2010 St...

Czapanskiy: ?Chalimony: Seeking Equity between Parents of Children with Disabilities and Chronic Illnesses?

Posted on August 09, 2010
Karen Czapanskiy recently posted Chalimony: Seeking Equity between Parents of Children with Disabilities and Chronic Illnesses, 34 New York University Review of Law & Social Change 253 (2010) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Many thousands of children experience serious...

Wife Learns of Husband's Other Marriage on Facebook

Posted on August 09, 2010
From the AP: Dread of the unknown hung in the air as Lynn France typed two words into the search box on Facebook: the name of the woman with whom she believed her husband was having an affair. Click. And...

Call for Papers: Science, Family, and Law

Posted on August 08, 2010
Call for Papers: Science, Family, and Law Program sponsored by the AALS Section on Family & Juvenile Law and Co-Sponsored by the AALS Section on Law, Medicine, and Health Care 2011 AALS Annual Meeting San Francisco, California The Section on...

20% of U.K. Divorces Relate to Facebook

Posted on August 07, 2010
We already knew that Facebook killed many marriages, but new numbers show how many divorces are linked to facebook in the United Kingdom: 20%! Read more here. MR

Update on Transgendered Widow Benefits Story

Posted on August 06, 2010
We blogged last week about a transgendered Texas widow fighting over her alleged husband's death benefits with his family (see here). Now that widow is releasing emails she says support her claim that her husband knew of her gender identity...

Kane, Spizman, Rodgers, & Gaskins: ?The Effect of the Loss of a Parent on the Future Earnings of a Minor Child?

Posted on August 06, 2010
John C. Kane, Lawrence M. Spizman, James D. Rodgers, and Rick R. Gaskins have posted The Effect of the Loss of a Parent on the Future Earnings of a Minor Child 36 Eastern Economic Journal 370 (2010) on SSRN. Here...

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