The Balkan Chronicle

A recent study has resulted out in a fact that kids of divorced parents do not perform good, both socially and academically. Check the details here:

In this world, a child always seeks and looks up to his parents for any need or emotional support. But when parents decide to get separated without giving a thought to what will happen to the life of their child, this situation delivers many worries for the kid. There are many examples when kids see their parents fighting and using foul language against each other. That is why such children do not grow as confident and intelligent individuals. This is also because they never get the right kind of guidance to handle the situations and difficulties of life. Thus, a disturbed parent relationship can even disturb the whole life of a kid. So, take a look here at a review about a new study that has stamped this aspect with their research. View inside!!

Traditional words 'father' and 'mother' will be replaced with official terms Parent 1 and Parent 2 in Britain. The terms will be used in official documents. The authorities decided to make such a "politically correct" move to accommodate same-sex couples. Experts are sure, though, that the matter is not about the requirements of certain social groups. The decision is another step towards the destruction of traditional families.

The words 'father' and 'mother' will be removed from British passport applications before December 2011. This became an achievement of Stonewall group, which defends the rights of sex minorities. The US State Department tried to do the same before, but it was eventually decided not to remove the two words from US passport applications.

It is safe to say that everyone has loved someone or something in their life time. If you pay close attention to the use of the word love, you'll see it's used a lot. The question is "Do we mean it when we say it?". "Do we know what love is?" or better yet, Do we know how to love?

I married a con man—a man who I now consider to be a sociopath. I didn't know anything about sociopaths when I said, "I do." Well, I learned about sociopaths (also called psychopaths) the hard way.

In fact, I've written a book about how it all happened. It's called Love Fraud-How marriage to a sociopath fulfilled my spiritual plan.

I thought I was marrying a successful businessman, James Montgomery. It turned out I was his business. He took all my money and left me seriously in debt.

Think it couldn't happen to you? Think again.

New research suggests that European women are two-and-a-half times more likely to suffer from depression than men, and twice as depressed as they were in the 70s

Does juggling childcare and work make women susceptible to depression?

Women who are seven to nine years older than their husbands have a 20% higher mortality rate than if they were the same age.

Marrying someone younger reduces your mortality rate if you're a man – but increases it if you're a woman.

The secret to a longer life is to marry someone the same age, at least if you are a woman, researchers say.

Dozens of Serbian women are married to some of the world's wealthiest men, spanning all continents and all ethnicities, says Belgrade daily Vecernje Novosti.

Spending your days in front of the television may contribute to a shortened lifespan, a new study suggests.

Researchers in Australia found that people who averaged six hours a day of TV lived, on average, nearly five years less than people who watched no TV.

RECORD numbers of British women are converting to Islam.

There are up to 100,000 converts in the UK - up from around 60,000 in 2001 - with white women leading the trend, according to research for the Faith Matters organisation. A study by Swansea University, on behalf of Faith Matters, found 5,200 people converted to Islam in the UK last year.

The latest surveys carried out by SingleMuslim.com, the world's leading internet-based matrimonial service for the Muslim community, show that the majority of Muslim men would prefer to marry someone younger.

The first of the polls asked SingleMuslim.com members whether their ideal marriage partner would be the same age, younger or older than themselves.

Asked during a Nov. 5 meeting about how women would be able to work if they all had three children as requested by Turkey’s prime minister, the country’s leader answered, saying, “You cannot increase employment by not having children.”

The fertility rate is quite low in northern Mediterranean countries that are European Union members.

They are, at the same time, countries where social care policies are underdeveloped compared to other European countries and where women rely considerably on grandmothers for childcare. On the other hand, in the Scandinavian countries and in France, the state plays a critical role in the child care area.

Nearly 600 academics from 50 countries across the world convened in southern Antalya on Friday for a two-day international conference to seek solutions to global problems that threaten the “existence of the family.”

Titled Family as a Value in terms of Religion, Tradition and Modernity, the conference was organized by the Women’s Platform, Dialogue Eurasia Platform and the Intra-Cultures Dialogue Platform -- all sub-organizations of the Journalists and Writers Foundation (GYV). The event was the first of its kind because

The United Nations Special Session of the General Assembly on Children

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