Custody

  • Is being the neighbor of a sex offender a crime?

    Judge rules five-year-old son can't visit dad in apartment across hall from sex offender.
    By Katharine Mieszkowski February 2, 2007

  • The wrong egg

    When a fertility clinic mistakenly placed a client's sperm in the wrong woman, the man sued for the right to be called the baby's father. Trouble is, the law says he's nobody's daddy.
    By Angela Valdez November 16, 2006

  • New York's faulty divorce laws

    A commission recommends that the state join the rest of the country in adopting no-fault divorce rules.
    By Sarah Goldstein February 7, 2006

  • Is Israel too dangerous for children?

    Robert Silverman wants his young sons returned to Israel. But in a decision with major repercussions for international child-abduction cases, a federal judge rules for his ex-wife, saying the country is unsafe for kids.
    By David Tuller January 7, 2003

  • The ultimate weapon

    Pederastic priests, molesting fathers -- charges of sexual abuse are everywhere these days. But a growing movement of aggrieved men claim the accusations have gotten out of hand.
    By Chris Colin May 22, 2002

  • Payback time

    My son is leaving to live with his dad. It is only fair -- and horrendously painful
    By Debra Gordon October 23, 2001

  • On the custody circuit

    My sister and I were lawless in transit, silent upon arrival.
    By Rebecca Land Soodak June 29, 2001

  • Save the males!

    Men are going the way of the dodo in our feminized society, says Warren Farrell. And that's not good for either sex.
    By Amy Benfer February 6, 2001

  • Team players or tools of the patriarchy?

    By Cathy Young
    By July 12, 2000

  • The Supreme Court wimps out on grandparents rights

    The justices reveal themselves to be as knotted as a family in the throes of emotional strife.
    By Damien Cave June 7, 2000

  • From Miami streets to the Web

    The battle over the custody of Elian Gonzalez is just as fierce and constant in cyberspace.
    By Max Garrone April 18, 2000

  • Why they can't all just get along

    In the unfolding telenovella over custody of Elian, the Gonzalezes look more disturbed than the Sopranos.
    By Myra MacPherson April 13, 2000

  • Sisterhood is powerless

    How feminism has made men's lives safer -- and women's more dangerous.
    By Jennifer Foote Sweeney and Alisa Smith March 14, 2000

  • Letters to the editor

    The mixed blessing of adoption; Plus: Readers shocked to find themselves agreeing with David Horowitz; Christopher Buckley "sincerely disgusted."
    Letters to the editor February 9, 2000

  • Out with the old and out with the new

    Feminism of every stripe has failed. It's time for a gender equality movement.
    By Cathy Young January 26, 2000

  • Sophie's choice

    A Canadian court will decide whether Sophie Brassard must give her children a drug cocktail or lose them to a foster home.
    By Alyson Mead December 8, 1999

  • My grandparents were pioneers in the battle for visitation rights

    To me, they were dependable, a security blanket I would never lose.
    By Damien Cave November 1, 1999

  • Kidnapped

    Peter Kurth wonders why his sister Barbara has been put on trial by the media after the arrest of Stephen Fagan, who abducted their two daughters and lived with them under a false identity for 19 years before his recent Palm Beach arrest.
    By Peter Kurth May 7, 1998

  • The woman who turned America against divorce

    How did psychologist Judith Wallerstein become America's divorce czar? A profile by Joan Walsh.
    By Joan Walsh July 23, 1997
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