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Monday, January 29, 2001

• "Surviving Beyond Happily Ever After," by Joan Busick, and "Without Child: Challenging the Stigma of Childlessness," by Laurie Lisle, have been added to the Book Release section of our site.

• Recent News has been updated with stories for January 29 (states divided on how to discourage divorce), January 25 (new study lifts covers on how we're having sex; marital status affects vacation plans of workers),  January 24 (church singles group in Michigan expands membership; Iranian council vetoes international travel rights for unmarried women), January 23 (workshop for single parents offered in Oakland County, Michigan; Virginia legislators won't repeal state sodomy law; Cornell scholars question constitutionality of 'abstinence-only' high school sex ed), January 22 (poverty, unmarried status contribute to use of abortion services), and January 21 (Church of England may lift ban on remarriage after divorce).

• Domestic Partner News has been updated with a story for January 27 (gender-neutral civil union bill introduced in Hawaii).

Friday, January 26, 2001

• Recent News has been updated with one story for January 25 and one for January 24, 2001.  The first concerns a move to repeal inheritance taxes in New Hampshire which are unfair to single people without children and to unmarried couples.  The second discusses a report showing that older women who live alone are not at a higher health risk because of their unmarried status. 

Thursday, January 25, 2001

• Angela Seward, author of "Goodnight Daddy," has become an honorary member of AASP and has been added to our list of Book Author Members.

Wednesday, January 24, 2001

• Recent News has been updated with one story for January 23 about the new tax-cut proposals introduced into Congress and one for January 22 about the flogging of a Nigerian girl for premarital sex.  Also added were two stories for January 20, one about a proposed law that would allow courts to grant visitation rights to grandparents and unmarried partners who have been denied visitation privileges by a biological parent, and another discussing the fact that the extent of teen sex has been underreported because most teens don't consider oral or anal sex to be "sex."  The section has also been updated with a story for January 19 about the legal disability of non-marital children in Nairobi and two for January 16, the first of which says that the teen "virginity pledge" movement is ineffective, despite a report claiming the contrary, and the second which discusses a "covenant marriage" bill introduced in Iowa.  Another story was added for January 17 about new tax rules from the IRS that will affect the amount of money that unmarried retirees must withdraw from their retirement plans.

• Domestic Partner News has been updated with a story for January 23 about a case before the Washington state Supreme Court that will affect the right of same-sex partners to inherit from each other if one partner dies without a will.  A story was also added for January 22 about a lawsuit in Washington state to cancel same-sex partner benefits for state workers, and a story for January 18 about a bill in Massachusetts which would prohibit legal recognition of any type of same-sex union, whether it be called "marriage" or "civil union" or any other name.

Saturday, January 20, 2001

• Recent News has been updated with one story for January 18, 2001.

• Domestic Partner News has been updated with a story for January 16 and one for January 11, 2001.

• "Essays for Solo Singles" has been updated with a new essay by AASP member Miriam Greenwald.

Tuesday, January 16, 2001

• Recent News has been updated with stories for January 16, 13, 12, 11, 9, and January 8, 2001.

• Domestic Partner News has been updated with one story for January 14, and one for January 12, 2001.

Thursday, January 11, 2001

• Art Goldberg has joined AASP and has been added to the list of our Honorary Members.  Goldberg is a criminal defense lawyer and is currently a candidate for the Los Angeles City Council.  He is the brother of the outgoing councilmember for the 13th council district, Jackie Goldberg, who has just begun serving her first term in the California State Assembly.

• Recent News has been updated with two stories for January 9, 2001.

• Domestic Partner News has been updated with one story for January 7, 2001, about the economic discrimination experienced by unmarried couples in California.

Monday, January 8, 2001

• Recent News has been updated with three stories for January 8 , one for January 7, and three for January 5, 2001.

Friday, January 5, 2001

• "Getting Apart Together: The Couple's Guide to a Fair Divorce or Separation," by Martin A. Kranitz, and Making Intimate Connections: 7 Guidelines for Greater Relationships and Better Communications by Dr. Albert Ellis and Ted Crawford, have been added to the Book Release section of our site.

• Recent News has been updated with one story for January 4, 2001, about a court decision involving co-ed dorms for unmarried students at Yale, and a second story about a Nigerian girl who will be lashed 180 times for having engaged in premarital sex.  Another story for the same date reports that only about half of teens who promise to abstain from sex until marriage actually keep the promise for more than four years.

• Domestic Partner News has been updated with one story for January 4, 2001, about the possibility of domestic partner benefits being extended to city employees in Houston, Texas, and a second story about how human resource managers are becoming more aware of the growing importance of benefits for the "significant others" of employees, not just same-sex partners.

Thursday, January 4, 2001

• "No Place Like Home: Relationships and Family Life among Lesbians and Gay Men, by Christopher Carrington, has been added to the Book Release section of our site.

• Recent News has been updated with one story for December 27, 2000, about how more than half of current marriages are preceded by cohabitation.

Tuesday, January 2, 2001

• Recent News has been updated with one story for December 31, 2000, about a planned legal challenge to a law in Utah which forbids joint adoption of children by same-sex couples and a story for December 30 focusing on the large number of Christian couples who chose to refrain from sex until they are married. A profile of an unmarried-rights advocate, Marshall Miller, was added to the stories for December 27, 2000.

Monday, January 1, 2001

• Recent News has been updated with one story for December 29, 2000, about the increase in school programs that teach kids that sex is only for married couples.  One story for December 28 tells that more couples in Japan are having sex before marriage, with a resulting rise in pregnant brides. Three stories have been added for December 27 -- one focuses on a new law in Australia that allows couples to enter into pre-marriage agreements to spell out the details of their married life, another discusses the rising divorce rate for elderly married couples in the United States, and a third about a courageous single woman in China who is seeking artificial insemination which the law restricts to married couples.

• Eric Garcetti, Ph.D., has joined AASP and has been to the list of our Honorary Members.  Dr. Garcetti is a visiting professor at the Department of Diplomacy and World Affairs at Occidental College in Los Angeles.  He is currently running for the position of Los Angeles city council member in the 13th District.  Dr. Garcetti was a Rhodes Scholar from 1993 to 1998, and more recently was a Next Generation Leadership Fellow at the Rockefeller Foundation.
   

What's New -- December 2000