Ever wonder what your child says about you when you’re not around? Does he spill the beans on your recent nose job or repeat that indiscreet crack you made about your boss? From the moment their kids first grab hold of a mouse, parents often warn them that what they say online could come [...]
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I have previously posted here and here on the issue of breastfeeding as it relates to matters of child custody and visitation. Now word comes of a Minnesota case in which a court-appointed guardian-ad-litem is urging the judge to order a mother to stop breastfeeding her baby due to the prescription medication the mother takes. [...]
Mom and Dad don’t live together anymore. Your child has two beds, two sets of teddy bears, two groups of friends, and two homes. And, as the years go by, these two homes may be further and further apart. It’s important that your child has health coverage in both homes. But how will you [...]
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The New York Times today more or less panned Alec Baldwin’s appearance on the soon to be Rosie-less “The View,” during which he offered a fairly self serving explanation for his outburst against his daughter, and attacked the family law system. I am inclined to agree that Baldwin did not do himself any favors with [...]
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All parents at some point face the difficult question of whether their children are old enough to be left alone at home. Dustin Jones of All Things Pennsylvania Family Law had this interesting post on this question:
A reader stumped me last week with the following question: “At what age can children be legally left alone [...]
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Dr. Virginia Shiller, a licensed clinical psychologist who has commented here on the California spanking legislation, has offered further additional thoughts on this subject. I think that this issue is of sufficient importance, and that Dr. Shiller’s comments are especially interesting, that I will reproduce them in the body of this post. While I am [...]
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I usually try to refrain from commenting on celebrity gossip type items on this blog. I don’t think that such “news” is especially meaningful to what I am trying to do here. But the Britney Spears story has finally reached a point where I thought a few words were in order. I do not especially [...]
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The New York Court of Appeals, that state’s highest court, has upheld the state’s grandparent visitation statute. The law permits grandparent visitation rights where it is shown that one parent is deceased, or equity would otherwise warrant such visitations. As I noted in a previous post on this issue, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court in a [...]
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Can a court restrict what you can say or tell your child based upon what the court deems to be in the child’s “best interests”? If you are a divorced parent, the answer is, you may be surprised, yes, as UCLA law professor Eugene Volokh explains in a recent op-ed piece published in the LA [...]
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With the advance of medical and reproductive technologies, the thorny question has arisen, and is hotly debated, as to when, or even whether, it is ethically permissible for physicians to enable prospective parents to choose the sex of their bay. The New York Times this week ran a very interesting essay bhy Denise Grady, in [...]
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