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Sending Children Back: An Adoption Issue

Taking care of an adopted child is hard work. Older children from foreign countries often enter your family with baggage and emotional instability. They may have attachment disorders, anger problems, ...
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Dad Admits to Locking Daughter in Cage in Parental Abuse Case

In Cincinnati, Ohio a father was jailed for 30 days after admitting that he tied up his 12-year-old daughter and locked her in a dog cage. He threatened to electrify the cage while she was inside if ...
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The Rights of a Surrogate Mother

Surrogacy is one remedy for infertility. It is the process by which a woman carries and delivers a child in her womb and delivers it for another couple. Like sperm donation, this method involves ...
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Mother’s Day and Mother’s Rights

Mother's Day is a popular holiday in the United States that is celebrated on the second Sunday in May to show appreciation to moms everywhere. While most people believe that Mother's Day was ...
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Sperm Donors and Parental Rights

Sperm donation is the process by which a male will sell his sperm to a sperm bank so that it can be used to impregnate women who do not have the means to become pregnant. The child that is the product ...
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The Divorce Education Bill

Will couples considering the possibility of divorce be required to go through a divorce ed course? For Utah residents, that is exactly what will be happening. Lawmakers are pushing for people to be ...
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The Abandoned Infants Assistance Act

While it is sobering to admit, there are times that mothers will abandon their infants in the hospital. Maybe the mother did not want to a baby in the first place, and was not able to find an adoptive ...
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Then and Now: Marriage in 2012

Marriage was once viewed as a lifetime commitment, and people who married were considered partners until they perished. In the early 1900s, 97 percent of all marriages lasted until one spouse passed ...
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Yelling at Your Kids: A Case of Abuse?

We've all seen it, and maybe even done it ourselves. Yelling at your children in a public place can often draw unwanted attention your way, but is it abusive? Parents have a right to raise their ...
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Does a Child’s Cancer Cause Divorce? A New Study Has the Answer

Couples divorce for a plethora of reasons. Most often the twosome cannot get along any longer because of verbal or emotional abuse, or a disagreement on a fundamental life value. Also, people have ...
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Is Allowing Your Child to be Morbidly Obese Considered Child Abuse?

According to a recent survey, between 16 and 33 percent of all children and adolescents are obese. This means that they are 20 percent over their ideal weight bracket. Morbidly obese children are 50 ...
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Arranged Marriage in America

Last month, Fox News reported that an Iraqi mother was accused of beating her daughter because she would not concede to an arranged marriage. She pleaded not guilty, but police said that they saw ...
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Marriage Without the Ceremony: Common-Law Marriage

Some people are creatures of habit. They order the same thing from restaurants, they wear the same pair of shoes every day and maybe they have never even changed their hairstyle, but can some people ...
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Marrying a Non-Citizen

When you find the person you want to spend the rest of your life with, it seems like nothing can stand in your way. For those who happen to fall in love with a non-U.S. citizen however, they may have ...
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All About Kinship Adoptions

When a child's biological parents are not fit caretakers, it is important that the child is given a new living location and new guardians. The Children's Bureau Express says that the state law ...
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Merging Your Lives, Merging Your Debt

Those considering the possibility of marriage are likely busy planning the cake and the location, but it is important to remember that marriage is also a financial decision that requires extensive ...
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All About Palimony

You've probably heard of alimony, which is the monetary payment that one spouse may be required to pay the other during or after a divorce. Oftentimes separated spouses will battle back and forth ...
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Are You Ready to Get Married?

When you know, you know. That's what people always say anyway. If you have found the one and are ready to tie the knot, there are a few steps you have to take before you can start hearing wedding ...
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Tracking Your Teen: Are Teen GPS Trackers Legal?

"See what your teens are really doing!" an advertisement online beckons. This catch-phrase for a teen tracking device tells parents that they can secretly keep tabs on their children by ...
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Spanking Your Kids: A Child Abuse Case?

Last month, Fox6 News in Milwaukee reported a court case where a father was convicted of one felony for physical abuse of a child. The 38-year-old dad supposedly hit his five-year-old son with a belt ...
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