Mutual Solutions

07/05/2013

New blog post http://mutualsolutions.ca/2013/07/05/interesting-study-on-divorce-and-parental-attachement/

Attachment and Parental Divorce: A Test of the Diffusion and Sensitive Period Hypotheses a study conducted by R. Chris Fraley and Marie E. Heffernan, published in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.

06/21/2013

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jefflanders/2013/06/20/not-your-mothers-divorce-three-21st-century-trends/

Not Your Mother’s Divorce: Three 21st Century Trends Over the years, changes occur in all aspects of our culture, and everything from food, film and fashion to parenting, politics and pop music goes through cycles and trends. Naturally, the same is true for divorce. Through my work as a Divorce Fina...

06/18/2013

Get expert help to divide property and retirement savings so that tax and future income can be projected

06/11/2013

The start-up trying to make divorce less painful http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-22802825?goback=%2Egde_2117176_member_247682654

Divorce is one of the most stressful events human beings experience. The BBC's Fiona Graham talks to the founder of the US start-up trying to take some of the pain out of the process

06/07/2013

DIRTY WORK: A SIX-PART SERIES in The Globe and Mail

PART 1 Dirty work: How household chores push families to the brink

PART 2 How picky women "gatekeepers" wind up doing most of the housework

PART 3 In some homes, men do more housework than women

PART 4 The business case for rebalancing work and life

PART 5 The great, untapped household labour pool: your kids

PART 6 Ending the chore war: 5 ideas for peace on the domestic front

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/relationships/dirty-work-how-household-chores-push-families-to-the-brink/article12300024/

Progress on housework equity has stalled, hurting many women’s careers – and marriages

06/07/2013

This article highlights an interesting study by 3 economists from the
University of Chicago about what happens when women make more money than their husbands.

"They found that traditional views of gender identity, particularly the view that the right and proper role of the husband is to make more money than the wife, are affecting choices of whom to marry, how much to work, and even whether to stay married." Read on.......

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/02/business/breadwinner-wives-and-nervous-husbands.html?ref=todayspaper&_r=1&

A study reveals that women’s growing financial success may be contributing to a decline in marriage stability. And one reason may be a lingering attitude from the “Mad Men” days.

05/29/2013

Read this interesting article that questions the reliability of “averages” and how the numbers can get skewed-especially when we are talking about personal relationships, such as marriage, kids and divorce. Here is an excerpt:

“Most children of divorced parents turn out to be as well adjusted as children of married parents, but the much smaller number who lead very troubled lives can lower the average outcome for the whole group, producing exaggerated estimates of the impact of divorce.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/26/opinion/sunday/when-numbers-mislead.html?ref=opinion&_r=1&

Data can lead to mistaken notions — that divorce, for instance, must hurt children.

05/28/2013

They're the women in their fifties who've given hubby the flick. More and more middle-aged marriages are now ending but the new divorcees have never been happier.

http://video.au.msn.com/watch/video/grey-divorce-boom/xm96ob3?cpkey=9dbff70d-b958-45b2-9823-528a63fbcf1a%257c%257c%257c%257c

May 20, 2013: They're the women in their fifties who've given hubby the flick. More and more middle-aged marriages are now ending but the new divorcees have never been happier.

05/17/2013

Grandparent rights bill will get public hearings in Ontario http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/grandparent-rights-bill-will-get-public-hearings-in-ontario/article11443192/

Bill received second-reading approval last Thursday and will now go to a legislative committee

05/17/2013

A marriage tip, after 77 years and 11 children: ‘You just do it’ "They had no choice, and in the face of hardship, they learned to endure difficulty together."

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/relationships/a-marriage-tip-after-77-years-and-11-children-you-just-do-it/article11966804/

Canada’s longest-wedded couple, Alice and Arthur John of the Yukon, will be feted this weekend by Worldwide Marriage Encounter Canada

05/17/2013

http://mutualsolutions.ca/2013/05/01/nytimes-article/

“As jobs have been automated or moved overseas, it has become more difficult for high-school-educated young men to find the kind of steady, well-paying industrial work that sustained their fathers’ families. Faced with this situation, many of them are willing to live in short-term cohabiting relatio...

05/01/2013

This is what happens when parents leave the parenting to their kids. Come wedding time, the kids are left to mediate the peace so their special day can go ahead with no hitches. Another great reason to put aside sadness and anger at the time of separation and work together for a future that honours each other and the kids.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/28/fashion/weddings/divorce-whisperer-mediating-with-parents-isnt-easy-field-notes.html?ref=style&_r=0

Wedding planning anxiety deepens when couples have to accommodate warring divorced parents.