CAIRO — Egypt’s president said Tuesday he was alarmed by his country’s high divorce rate, suggesting a ground-breaking legislation to delegalize divorces verbally declared by Muslim men to their spouses, the latest foray by the general-turned-president into thorny social and ...
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Official: Russia could end ban on US adoptions 
MOSCOW — The speaker of Russia’s upper house of parliament said Wednesday Moscow is willing to open discussions about rescinding the ban on Americans adopting Russian children. The ban was imposed in 2012, prompted by a U.S. law sanctioning some ...
Read More »Minority prevails on Minn. surrogacy commission 
ST. PAUL — After months of meetings and many hours of debate, the Legislative Commission on Surrogacy last month issued its final recommendations to the Legislature on ways to regulate gestational surrogacy. The decision was not without controversy. The approved recommendations—which ...
Read More »Parents, save up: Cost of raising a child is more than $233K 
WASHINGTON — Expecting a baby? Congratulations! Better put plenty of money in your savings account. The Department of Agriculture says the estimated cost of raising a child from birth through age 17 is $233,610, or as much as almost $14,000 ...
Read More »More relatives in N.M. seek custody of kids after parental drug abuse 
SANTA FE, N.M. — The number of northern New Mexico residents seeking custody of abused and neglected children born to relatives has skyrocketed in the past two years. People who work in the state’s family courts system say opiate addiction ...
Read More »New Mexico family law judge follows in the footsteps of her mother 
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Jane Levy never thought she would follow in her mother’s footsteps. “You spend your childhood saying, ‘I’m not going to be just like my parents,'” she said. “It just sort of seeps in.” The 38-year-old was appointed ...
Read More »High-tech dolls introduce students to parenting 
GRAHAM, N.C. — Three of the boys in Kim Currie’s Parenting and Child Development class are rocking crying newborns. The babies are actually RealCare Infant Simulators — high-tech dolls that cry, burp, slurp, giggle, and send data to Currie to ...
Read More »Parents face deadline to shield New Jersey adoptions 
TRENTON, N.J. — New Jersey is joining 19 other states that allow adults who were adopted access to their birth certificates, something that previously was available only by court order. The birth parents of as many as 300,000 children who ...
Read More »More marrying millennials say a prenup is something they need to have 
While prenuptial agreements have traditionally served the purpose of protecting the accumulated assets of those who are marrying later in life or are marrying for the second or third time, millennials have increasingly been requesting them in recent years, family law attorneys said.
Read More »Minn. teen’s project provides blankets to foster children 
NICOLLET, Minn. — A blanket holds special meaning to 16-year-old Hailey Sherwood of Nicollet. Her foster parents, now her adoptive parents, bought her a Winnie the Pooh blanket when she was first brought to their home at six months old. ...
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