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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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Marriage and the Self Help Dumping Ground

by Stephen on August 17, 2009

I read an editorial in the Los Angeles Times this morning: “California I’m Dumping You.” Then I took a nap. But I couldn’t sleep. The idea of ‘dumping’ disturbed me and I kept thinking ‘I’m not dumping California, I’m embracing it. I’m embracing my marriage too and my life.’
‘Dumping’ has become kind of hip. Many [...]

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Why Twitter? Why Not?

by Stephen on July 22, 2009

There is a big messy challenge for anyone who has an idea and wants the world to know about it. Not that the world necessarily needs the idea. Just a few people really do, or so it seems. But a good idea sparks a great deal of other good ideas.
I’ve been sparked by such diverse [...]

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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 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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