We marvel that the list has only eight items, but website We Have Kids lists eight warning signs that you are a bad parent. You'd expect things like neglecting or abusing your kid, sure. But some are surprising, like "irresponsible financial behavior." We have personally witnessed hundreds of examples of bad parenting, often from visiting tourists on our Virginia Beach boardwalk. ...
The common cuckoo bird engages in a brutal behavior scientists call brood parasitism1. The female cuckoo lays her eggs in other birds' nests. Quick-hatching cuckoo chicks hatch before their nestmates. They push the other bird eggs out of the nest to the ground below, leaving the foster bird mom to feed only the cuckoo. From the cuckoo we get the ...
Which lasts longer, the anger you feel during a contentious divorce, or the damage done to your family? When laid out in stark terms, the price of a family feud during a divorce becomes clear: your future relationships with children, extended family, and the mother of your children. The Unintentional Injury to Children of Divorce The American Association for Marriage ...
The words are deliberately menacing: "... authority to punish as contempt of court any willful failure of a party to comply with the provisions of the order ..." Virginia Code does not cut parents any slack in court orders, even when the subject is the fickle heart of a tween or teen. What could happen to you if your child ...
You and your child's mother decide to part ways. What becomes of your child? Without a court order, you would think you are adrift, unmoored to any child custody laws in Virginia, free to do as you please. Perhaps you and the child's mother would think you can do what you wish, since you never took the matter to a Virginia ...
The 1950s and 1960s model of fatherhood usually meant a Virginia man left home early each morning, returned home in late afternoon, and expected to relax with the evening newspaper without so much as a peep from his kids. Mom was expected to feed, clothe, bathe and supervise them. Dad was the disciplinarian, but every parent knows that hand can ...
The Centers for Disease Control tells us that, in 2017, 34.6 percent of Virginia's births were to unmarried mothers. The Old Dominion ranks 39th for births to unmarried mothers1. Sometimes, those single Virginia mothers feel compelled to place their children up for adoption. Some Virginia men choose to step up and take responsibility for the children they sired, by contesting ...
Most Virginia men are honorable. They take responsibility for the children they sire, either in or out of marriage. Part of that responsibility includes costs for medical care. After a divorce, for example, you may agree to cover a large portion — even the majority — of medical bills for your child. It is noble. It is the right thing to do. ...
Uncontested divorce is easy. You both agree you will be better off apart. You hire capable family law attorneys, sign papers, and move on. Done. Contested divorce, high conflict divorce, acrimonious divorce — that is a different beast. And it is a beast. Like a beast, it consumes time, money, mental energy, and more. High conflict divorce does real damage to ...