On AlterNet: divorce

Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "divorce"

5 Ways to Make Divorce Beneficial to Your Children

Jane Smiley, Huffington Post. November 12, 2010.

In America, you are never supposed to treat divorce with anything but appalled lamentations. Here's an alternative.

Should You Stay Together for the Kids? Hell No!

Lara Riscol, AlterNet. January 19, 2010.

Choose the pursuit of happiness instead. For yourself, and for your child.

Priceless: Divorce Rates Rising Only in States That Ban Same-Sex Marriage

Tara Lohan, AlterNet. January 13, 2010.

We all know all the right-wing family values stuff is bullshit, so this just helps put the icing on the cake.

6 Tricks to Sex After a Divorce

Julie Bogart, Sirens Magazine. December 1, 2009.

Whether you're looking for a new relationship or are simply looking to get laid, here's what to expect the first time you have sex after a break-up.

Palin Lawyer Threatens to Serve Blogger With Libel Papers at Kindergarten Class

Rachel Weiner, Huffington Post. August 3, 2009.

"Threatening to serve legal papers to an educator in a room full of five year olds? Now that is malicious."

How to Make Marriage More Than an Arrangement of Loveless, Sexless, Domestic Drudgery

Vanessa Richmond, The Tyee. July 10, 2009.

Marriage was designed way back when life expectancy was a couple of decades. Now that we live so much longer, does it make any sense?

You May Kiss the Bride: Government Is Still Pushing Marriage

Amy DePaul, AlterNet. June 1, 2009.

Social conservatives scored a victory when the Obama Administration decided to keep a Bush program promoting marriage.

The Research Does Not Support An Anti-Divorce Position

Kathy G, The G-Spot. April 17, 2008.

A recent study claiming single parents are a huge social burden doesn't deliver the goods.

You Can't Ban No-Fault Divorce

Amanda Marcotte, Pandagon. April 16, 2008.

The Christian right pursues a pipe dream of revoking a right Americans have grown accustomed to.

If 8 Can Marry, 8 Can File For Divorce

PZ Myers, April 14, 2008.

An 8-year-old in Yemen files for divorce, citing abuse.

Marriage & Domestic Violence: A Fatal Combination in the Philippines, Where Divorce is Illegal

Tess Raposas, The Women's International Perspective. January 17, 2008.

Intimate partner violence is the most prevalent form of abuse against women in the Philippines -- but married women have no way out.

Is Monogamy Natural?

Anneli Rufus, AlterNet. July 25, 2007.

A lifetime of love versus a quick roll with a stranger. It's funny how we can have two seemingly opposite urges at the same time.

'Chauvinistic' Husbands in Japan Change to Keep Their Wives

Catherine Makino, Women's eNews. February 12, 2007.

A group of self-confessed chauvinist men in Japan are committed to changing their bad marital habits -- finding ways to feel comfortable saying "thank you" and "sorry."