Month: December 2013

The REAL Marriage Inequality

                        While the upscale college-educated crowd continues to marry at very high rates, marriage rates are plummeting among those further down on the socioeconomic ladder An excerpt from here: http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2013/03/18/gay-marriage-marriage-equality-column/1994405/…

Trouble In Splitsville

As matrimonial law grows ever more complex, getting out of a marriage requires a very good lawyer. Someone who can keep you out of the tabloid glare — or put your spouse in it. And someone who can understand your…

Family Court

I shoulda been a lawyer. Maybe in the next life. The things I’ve seen and experienced over the past 5 years are simply astonishing. If I went back to school and eventually passed the bar, I could do some serious…

The Great American Gender Debates of 2013

  A VERY interesting comment from the bottom of this article: http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/12/the-great-american-gender-debates-of-2013/282419/ Mortarmouth Let’s see… gay marriage, women, women, women, women, women, women. Ad nauseum. All I see in most of these debates is a lot of bitching and moaning predicated…

The Great American Gender Debates of 2013

  A VERY interesting comment from the bottom of this article: http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/12/the-great-american-gender-debates-of-2013/282419/   Mortarmouth Let’s see… gay marriage, women, women, women, women, women, women. Ad nauseum. All I see in most of these debates is a lot of bitching and moaning…

Dads, too, want to have it all

Chris Thomas is the primary caregiver for his three sons, and he works as a personal trainer. “I’m so tired,” he said. Photo for the Washington Post by Matt McClain An excerpt from this article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/she-the-people/wp/2013/11/06/dads-too-want-to-have-it-all/ Chris Thomas is the…

Male victims of domestic violence still under reported

  An excerpt from this article: http://www.portagedailygraphic.com/2013/11/25/awareness-of-men-and-domestic-violence-still-under-reported While most people are aware of the abuse some women face in domestic violence situations, perhaps not as well known is that men also experience this form of abuse. Since Portage la Prairie’s Real…