Representatives from 68 countries recently came together to finalize the text of a new convention that will help parents seek unpaid child support from former partners or spouses.
Margot Bean, Commissioner of the U.S. Office of Child Support Enforcement, believes this ‘comprehensive system’ will help children receive support more rapidly.
Among those that supported the text [...]
According to a recent survey, 40% of Japanese couples say they talk to their spouse less than 30 minutes each day. The study also revealed that 30% of these couples do not feel they have love in their relationship and more wives than husbands have considered divorce.
After a new law went into affect in April [...]
According to a 2004 survey by the Asian Women’s Forum and the Women’s Studies Center at Peking University, 45.3 percent of women felt they did not need to give up a career for family life.
This goes against the cultural expectation that women should raise families and tend to their husbands.
Some experts link this new [...]
There is a new trend in China where an increasingly number of couples in their early twenties are deciding to tie the knot. Going against the Chinese norm of establishing a career and marrying later on, recent college grads say they are tying the knot out of love instead of economic reasons.
Is this trend [...]
A former Wall Street Journal foregin correspondent, Pamela Druckerman, just published her book, Lust in Translation: The Rules of Infidelity from Tokyo to Tennessee. It hasn’t received great reviews, yet. She compares how different cultures define adultery and how they conceptualize infidelity.
Here’s some interesting data Druckerman found:
-Only 3.8 of married men and 2% [...]
Today Reuters ran a story about a survey recently conducted by OnePoll.Com which reveals some interesting findings about Britons:
-almost a quarter of Britons regret marrying their spouses
-15 percent of newlyweds-to-be will walk down the aisle with misgivings
-four percent of the 4,000 married people surveyed by OnePoll.Com said they married because they wanted wedding presents and [...]