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The only way to get through a breakup is to experience your emotions, but not brood on them.
Housework is typically thought of as a gendered or economic exchange, but a new study emphasises the role played by the knowledge we gain about our partner over the course of a relationship.
Seeking monogamy without jealousy? Try ditching the fear of your partner’s intimate connections with others and write your own relationship rules, suggests a relationship researcher.
The review of the Australian family law system is welcome, but it should not waste precious time and resources on data that already exist.
Data show parents with daughters are slightly more likely to separate than those with sons, but the risk disappears where the fathers grew up with a sister.
Muslim women in India struggle with a host of challenges, such as widespread poverty and lack of access to education. Arbitrary divorce was only one of many injustices.
The abolition of ‘instant divorce’ practice in India highlights how Muslim women are successfully and progressively changing gender rights.
What are the implications of the ‘instant divorce’ ban in India? Will it provoke a wider re-evaluation of India’s Muslim family laws, that affect millions of women?
Daughters across the US feel like their relationship with their father was damaged by their parents’ divorce. Here are steps daughters can take to repair that relationship.
Research shows that married women tend not to relate as much to other women. This makes a big difference when a woman is on the ballot.
India’s Supreme Court could soon rule to abolish “triple talaq”, a practice that allows Muslim men to divorce their wives instantaneously and discriminates against women.
Parental separation substantially raises the risk of homelessness by the age of 30 for girls and boys, but only boys are affected by a break-up after the age of 12.
We’ve known for years that childhood trauma can have lifelong effects on our health. It’s time for medicine and public health to start addressing the problem head-on.
Bertha Lawson alleged that her husband, celebrated poet Henry Lawson, was habitually cruel and drunk.
Couples filing for divorce have an incentive to pin the blame for marriage breakdown on one person. This should stop.
It is time to understand what parental alienating behaviors are so that we don’t allow them to be used to hurt others anymore.
New research used a method that predicts divorce to pick up the signs that an employee will stay or leave their job.
Separating couples who use the family law system generally have a positive experience - but for a troubled minority, there is still much work to be done.
Adding to the trauma of a relationship breaking down, families can find themselves caught in a tangle of state and commonwealth laws.
Top contributors
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Reader in Law, Cardiff University
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Professor Emerita of Law, King's College London
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Professor of Family Law, University of South Carolina
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Associate Professor in the Study of Modern Islam, University of Oxford
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Professor of Family Law, University of Bristol
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Senior Lecturer in Law, Monash University
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Senior Lecturer in Education and Childhood Studies, Liverpool John Moores University
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Senior Lecturer in Psychology, University of the Sunshine Coast
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Professor of Sociology and Founding Director of The Future of Work Lab, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor in Media, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Timothy W. Jones is a Friend of The Conversation.
Associate Professor in History, La Trobe University
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Associate Professor in Family Law, Durham University
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Professor of Social Policy, University of Bath
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Professor of Clinical Psychology, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Work and Organisation, Brunel University London
