Rudy Giuliani is not at all atypical, at least in terms of his rather complicated family life. The New York Times has this rather interesting article on the subject of blended families in tomorrow’s paper. Mayor Giliuani’s travails are not at all uncommon.
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Thanks to Jeffrey Lalloway and his California Divorce and Family Law Blog for posting regarding the following information: While all couples may have conflict in their relationship, a Baylor University researcher has found it is not if a couple fights and argues, but how they communicate during their conflict that can determine [...]
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I am not ordinarily a New Year’s resolution maker. I do think, however, that the start of a new year provides us with an opportunity to assess where we are, how we’re doing and how we might do better. Dawn Miller at The Step Family Life offers some thoughts on New Year’s resolutions for stepfamilies.
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One of the hardest, and often most heartbreaking, things about ending a marriage comes when its time to tell your children that you and your spouse have decided to divorce. The words do not come easy, and the answers to their questions are harder still. This article from Divorce Magazine contains some helpful suggestions for [...]
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Today’s New Yoork Times contains an article relaying the collective wisdom of an unidentified group of “relationship experts” concerning various questions that couples considering marriage ought to discuss before making the commitment. Without any comment (for now) the experts list follows:
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Efefctive January 1, 2005, Pennsylvania abolished common law marriage by statute on a propspective basis. This means that the statute only applies going forward, and does not preclude a couple from establishing the existence of a common law marriage if they can prove that the marriage was entered into before January 1, 2005. This article [...]
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The New York Times this past Wednesday ran this interesting article that discussed the results of a study conducted by a UCLA psychologist, one of her former colleagues and a UCLA graduate student. The study posits that possibly the most imprtant factor for the strength of a relationship is how one deals with his or [...]
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