It tells you a lot about an article on divorce in the U.S. that it starts with a study about marriage and divorce in the United Arab Emirates. That was in the first sentence, but you didn’t need to … Read the rest
Archive for the ‘Marriage’ Category
Alternet, Salon.com Promote Divorce, Forget Dads and Kids
Thursday, January 10th, 2013 by Robert Franklin, Esq.Marcotte: Single Motherhood OK, Not Mothers’ Fault
Sunday, July 29th, 2012 by Robert Franklin, Esq.Is it possible for a person to be able to write but not read? I doubt it, but must confess that this nonsense by Amanda Marcotte raises the issue (Slate, 7/24/12). Hers is the third in Slate’s… Read the rest
Wilcox Demolishes Roiphe
Wednesday, July 25th, 2012 by Robert Franklin, Esq.To its credit, Slate has published a calm, fact-based and fair response to Katie Roiphe’s recent tantrum about single-mother child rearing (Slate, 7/20/12). It’s by University of Virginia sociologist, W. Bradford Wilcox who, over the years has … Read the rest
Katie Roiphe: Those Opposed to Single-Parenthood ‘Bourgeois,’ ‘Alarmist,’ ‘Puritanical,’ ‘Smug’
Thursday, July 19th, 2012 by Robert Franklin, Esq.It was just last week that Katie Roiphe penned a piece for Slate that extolled the wonders of forcing unmarried fathers to legally support the mothers of their children during pregnancy. Her sole hesitation about yet another judicially-enforced transfer … Read the rest
Single-Parent Families a Major Contributor to Child Poverty
Monday, July 16th, 2012 by Robert Franklin, Esq.The marriage gap is now being recognized as one of the most pernicious social trends in American life. This fine article is a good example (New York Times, 7/15/12).
For over 40 years now, the institution of … Read the rest
WaPo Part 1: The Myth that Myths About Marriage are Myths
Thursday, June 14th, 2012 by Robert Franklin, Esq.As a general rule, we can expect the mainstream news media in the United States and elsewhere to get it wrong on topics related to marriage, family, childcare, divorce, child custody and the like. This opinion piece by … Read the rest
Indonesian High Court: ‘Children Have Right to Relationship With Fathers’
Monday, February 20th, 2012 by Robert Franklin, Esq.The highest court of the world’s fourth largest nation ruled last week that children born out of wedlock have the right to a relationship with their fathers. The Constitutional Court of Indonesia voided part of the country’s 1974 Marriage Act that … Read the rest
‘Relationship Expert’: Marriage painful ‘grinding against the same person’ for years
Monday, February 13th, 2012 by Robert Franklin, Esq.“Miss Lonelyhearts” columns are one good way to keep track of the zeitgeist, or at least part of it. Partly due to their anonymity, people write in to strangers like Abigail Van Buren and say everything from pouring out … Read the rest
Scholar: ‘Family Structure a New Dividing Line in American Society’
Sunday, December 18th, 2011 by Robert Franklin, Esq.The decline in the rate of marriage is an economic blow to both adults and children. It’s a blow that has lasting, even intergenerational effects.
Why Are Men More Likely to Remarry Than Are Women?
Thursday, September 29th, 2011 by Robert Franklin, Esq.Why do American men remarry more readily than do American women? That’s the question Vicki Larson raises in this article (Huffington Post, 9/27/11).
I’ve written about Larson before, and she’s generally pretty down to earth. She also … Read the rest
