This article explores whether motherhood may have a restorative effect on prostitution. Minimal research has been done in this area, but this article will seek to analyze the available data about prostitutes who are also mothers, review the literature on this subject to date, and discern whether...

Today, more than 5,000 children are living in foster care as a result of immigration enforcement procedures that separate immigrant families. While these children remain largely invisible in the affairs of state politics, they are the principal casualties of an immigration system that...

This article offers an international comparison of adoption of children by same-sex parents, considering the trends in this area of adoption law around the planet, and how these trends may be early indicators for changes in parenting policy

The natural connection between parent and child matters both in life and in death. This article considers the legal conflicts that may arise when a primary caregiver parent dies. Consider whether a manipulative, self-involved, child-abusing, alcoholic mother who beat and badgered her children,...

Using original research we examine whether the handling of the COVID-19 pandemic by certain states (i.e. Wisconsin, California, and Florida) affected the attitude towards and enrollment in traditional routes of public and private education by parents. The results are surprising

Bad lawyer ethics may provide entertainment for Americans who are unlikely to rank lawyers as a highly virtuous or ethical group. Yet lawyer ethics are highest on the priority lists of legal organizations and law schools. State bars require continue legal education (CLE) in ethics, and every...

This essay explores whether a partner may access the family fortune by virtue of parentage of a partner’s adopted child when that partner has little to no legal connection to the child (via adoption, biology, primary caregiver, or de facto parent) nor to the partner (contractual, testamentary,...

Is there anything wrong with promoting marriage? Is there anything right about promoting marriage? Should an employer endorse marriage? Ought an employer meddle in an employee's private life and marital status? Can companies encourage marriage from within? This article will deal with these...