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Boost for mediation service

A PROJECT that helps children get through their parents' divorce has been awarded a funding boost. Family Mediation Lothian was given £192,463 for its Time To Talk project. The project encourages children over the age of 12 to complete a "parenting plan" that identifies their key needs, such as who they want to live with or which school to attend. The mediators also help children negotiate with the children until an agreement is in place. Time To Talk also provides one-to-one support sessions as well as group work and a website to enable young people to share their feelings with those

Overhaul of the Family Law System; Children’s Rights in Fiji

The government has just announced an overhaul of the Family Law system. It is designed to help separating couples solve their differences before they call in the lawyers. What will this mean for divorcing couples? Also we talk to a judge from Fiji about the types of practical steps you can take to protect children’s rights in a cash-strapped, developing country. Program Transcript Damien Carrick: Welcome to The Law Report. Today we talk to a judge from Fiji about the practical steps a cash-strapped developing country can take to protect its kids from abuse. But first, the overhaul of the Family Law system, announced

Rocky headline identified backers of gay marriage ban as "marriage proponents”

In the headline of a September 5 article about competing ballot measures related to gay marriage and domestic partnerships, The Rocky Mountain News referred to supporters of a ballot initiative to create a constitutional provision against same-sex marriage as "marriage proponents." The article by News reporter Myung Oak Kim detailed the campaign efforts of two conservative groups -- Coloradans for Marriage and Focus on the Family -- who seek the passage of Amendment 43, which would amend the Colorado Constitution to specify "that only a union of one man and one woman shall be valid or recognized as a marriage

Don’t accept civil unions

SINCE I STARTED at the Human Rights Campaign, I have had the opportunity to talk with gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people nationwide about the path to equality. Foremost in the minds of many I have been honored to meet is this question: Why is marriage so important? If you’re wondering this, you’re not alone. According to a Harris Interactive poll we recently commissioned, half of all GLBT adults think civil unions are the same as marriage. Unfortunately, that’s just not true. Simply put, civil unions do not provide any of the more than 1,000 protections or securities afforded under

Article 3 – No Title

The Commercial Advertiser, speaking of the series of meetings held at the Chinese Museum, by Mr. Fillmore's friends, says: "Their very conversational character indicated the impropriety of publication, and the facility with which an air of exaggeration or burlesque has been thrown around their proceedings, in even a Whig newspaper, is further evidence that the talk was designed rather to be friendly, and in some sense confidential, than for the public ear." Source : query.nytimes.com