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Family Law Prof Blog
The Cost of Raising Children
By Family Law
The Los Angeles Times reports on the release of new data on the cost of child-rearing:The grand total for middle-income parents raising one child from birth to age 17 is…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
The Role of Gender in Child-Rearing
The Atlantic: Are Fathers Necessary?, by Pamela Paul:A paternal contribution may not be as essential as we think.Even the most recession-walloped and otherwise diminished man can take pride in his…
Family Law Prof Blog
Paternal Postpartum Depression
By Family Law
From WSJ:It's not just new moms who get postpartumdepression. More than one in 10 fathers become depressed after the birth oftheir child, too, according to a new study that researchers…
Musings, Legal Ease and other stuff on Family Law
My Musings on custody matters
I do a lot of custody cases where the parties are not married, and these can be the most difficult cases. With a divorce, the parties loved each other at…
Family Law Prof Blog
Grief over a Parent’s Death
By Family Law
A recent CNN story confirms the obvious strength of theparent-child bond:In fact, 73 percent of adultsbelieve that their lives would have been "much better" had theirloved ones not died when…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
CLE Program on Drugs, Pregnancy and Parenting: April 29th at NYU School of Law
Presented by: National Advocates for Pregnant Women with New York University's School of Law & The NYU Silver School of Social WorkWhen: Thursday, April 29, 2010 (half day program 12p-5p)Where:…
Family Law Prof Blog
Appell: “Controlling for Kin: Ghosts in the Postmodern Family”
By Family Law
Annette Appell (Washington Univ. St. Louis) has posted "Controlling for Kin: Ghosts in the Postmodern Family" (Wis. Women's L. J.) on SSRN. Here is the abstract:This Article illustrates a paradox…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
NAPW Conference on Drugs, Pregnancy and Parenting
Via National Advocates for Pregnant Women:National Advocates for Pregnant Women and New York University present:Drugs, Pregnancy and Parenting: What the Experts Have to Say Part II People working in the…
Family Law Prof Blog
Sweetie, Can You Change Na’vi Tsu’tey’s Diaper?
By Family Law
Apparently, you might overhear this more often as peoplename their children after the characters in film blockbuster Avatar. Read more here.MR