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Conflict and Health

by Stephen on November 18, 2009

Interesting ABC news story on conflict and health

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Divorce isn’t only a personal choice

by Stephen on October 19, 2009

Divorce isn’t only a personal choice. It has a history. You’d be wise to learn about that history and its impact on marriage.
Read more about the Evolution of Divorce.

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Lettermans Self Help and The Marriage That Was

by Stephen on October 2, 2009

No doubt about it. Letterman helped himself. He created the illusion of sincere, hip and funny all at once. It wasn’t funny. It really wasn’t hip, unless of course, you’re a Peter Pan man.
He gave us a line or two about ‘Lutheran guilt’ and said he was loaded with it – but showed no evidence [...]

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Caitlin Flanagan’s featured piece in Time Magazine (July 13th) is a harangue on men – shaming, blaming, superior, posturing – but misses ‘what’s missing’ in marriage.
Ms Flanagan’s piece is from the old school. You may think she’d grown up with Cotton Mather or John Wesley. In this vein of thinking men are to be shamed [...]

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Child Abuse in Brazil

by Stephen on April 3, 2009

A recent news item in the N.Y. Times (Saturday, March 28, 2009) followed up an earlier report on the abuse of young girls in Brazil.
The story centered on a nine year old girl who was impregnated as a result of rape by her stepfather. The girl who was pregnant with twins was taken to a [...]

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Child Abuse in Pennsylvania

by Stephen on February 15, 2009

Whenever I can I pick up news items that are relevant to the families I am privileged to deal with. This article comes in today’s (Friday the 13th) N.Y. Times.
Two judges, in the Scranton area of Pennsylvania, have been arrested for, what else, greed. They shuttled teenagers with minor (really minor) offenses to a juvenile [...]

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