Recent family related news included: the recognition that healthy families come in many different shapes and sizes; tips on surviving couple breakups; reminders about bringing documentation when traveling with children and the devastating effect on children when revenge is used as a weapon in child custody cases.
Debra Kamin, The New York Times, November 16, 2022
Recent incidents at airports suggest that carrying your child’s birth certificate, passport or other documents will help mitigate alarming, and often time-consuming, incidents in security. In cases where parents are divorcing or are in a custody dispute, the need to carry documentation is even more urgent because parental custody does not automatically guarantee parents the right to get on an airplane with their children.
Patricia Fersch, Forbes, December 1, 2022
The author shared: In our practice of law, specifically litigated child custody cases, we encountered instances of what is described as the “dark triad” resulting in parents purposefully trying to manipulate the court or lying to the court about the other parent with no regard as to how their lying may ultimately impact on their children.
Arthur C. Brooks, The Atlantic, December 8, 2022
Knowing your emotional wounds will heal with time after a break-up does not necessarily make sitting through the pain any easier in the early aftermath of an ugly split. However, the author shares that there are a few things you can do to hasten the process of feeling better.
Alexis Soloski, The New York Times, December 9, 2022
As norms around marriage and divorce have evolved over the decades, so have their depictions on television, mostly recently in series like “George & Tammy,” “Better Things” and “The Split.” “There are many ways to be a family,” Orna Guralnik, a psychoanalyst and the star of Showtime’s unscripted series “Couples Therapy,” said in a recent phone interview. “A husband and wife in a particular kind of marriage is just one option.”
MJ Lee, Betsy Klein and Kevin Liptak, CNN, December 13, 2022
President Biden recently signed into law landmark new federal protections for same-sex and interracial couples, the Respect for Marriage Act, capping both a personal and national evolution on an issue that’s enjoyed growing acceptance over the past decade.