Gambian President Yahya Jammeh announced he was putting limits on widespread polygamy in his country — for the next three years, men will be allowed to have no more than three wives.
According to a BBC report Jammeh’s proclamation, however, the prohibition may not have much real effect,
“Pleas allow the young men to get married […]
A few weeks ago I wrote about the problems faced by men who fall behind in their child support payments when they are called up from their reservist positions to serve in time of war. Writing at LewRockwell.Com, Carey Roberts points out the ultimate example of this sort of problem,
Take Bobby Sherrill, for example. […]
In a 7-2 ruling the Canadian Supreme Court reversed several lower court rulings in saying that divorce agreements should be respected unless truly unforeseen circumstances occur that require revisiting them.
The case before the Court involved Linda Miglin who succeeded in having lower courts revise a divorce agreement she had reached with her husband in […]
The Christian Science Monitor ran a story in April about the odd predicament that some military reservists called up to serve in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom will find themselves in — namely, with legal problems stemming from falling behind in their child support payments.
The problem is simple — when reservists are called to […]
The Christian Science Monitor’s Marilyn Gardner wrote an interesting article about ‘deadbeat’ dads that acknowledged the problem with parents failing to pay child support but balanced it with a look at the obstacles that stand in the way of noncustodial fathers and mothers.
One of the interesting statistics Gardner cites is how the likelihood of […]
The BBC reported this month that India’s National Commission for Women is trying to highlight he issue of child marriages in that country.
Thousands of children, including some infants, are married on Akha Teej, which is considered one of the most auspicious days in some Hindu communities. Despite official laws making it illegal for boys […]
The BBC reports that a Jordanian woman recently became the first to receive a divorce under a new law that allows women as well as men to seek divorce.
Jordan used to allow only men to seek divorces — a fairly common legal restriction in most Muslim countries.
The law was changed earlier this year, however, […]
In her endless quest to bring sexual politics into practically every discussion, the New York Time’s Maureen Dowd recently blamed men for the fact that only 49 percent of female executives making more than $100,000 have children (compared to 10 percent of men in that position who are childless). Dowd absurdly thinks that men […]
A lot of folks are up in arms over Virginia’s proposal to criminalize marital rape, but the proposal seems like simple common sense.
On January 7, 2002, the Supreme Court refused to hear the appeal of Morgan Wise who was ordered by a Texas court to pay child support even though DNA tests confirm he cannot possibly be the father of the boy named in the support order.
Wise’s case started in 1999 when his youngest son, Rauli, […]