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...addition to the impact on the civil courts, our family and juvenile courts are about to take huge hits," says Don Mike Anthony, president of the Los Angeles County Bar Association. He says custody orders, divorce and child support matters that now take 30 days will soon take four months. In addition, the court will no longer provide financial support and supervising personnel to the Court-Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) program which works on behalf of abused, neglected and abandoned children involved in dependency court matters. Among the mundane cuts, a reduction of the popular night traffic court from twice...
...daughter of Thomas D'Alesandro, a former congressman and mayor of Baltimore, Pelosi's approach is often compared to his old-school Italian style of patronage. After all, as a child, she was often tasked with maintaining her father's "favors" list. But, while there is a certain degree of ring-kissing that still goes on on Capitol Hill, the Speaker is actually more like her mother, says Tommy D'Alesandro, Pelosi's brother and another former mayor of Baltimore. "You could cross my father, lie to him, oppose him," D'Alesandro says. "But our mother - you couldn...
...lacked self-awareness, refusing to acknowledge what he did was wrong. "Father H. was a pedophile - there's no doubt about it - and he was also a gifted actor," Dr. Huth says, recalling the fact that the priest boasted that he was a budding actor as a child. (See the Catholic school sex scandal in Ireland...
Harold Li of the Child Welfare League Foundation in Taiwan - where the filicide-suicide rate is the highest in Asia (61 reported cases since 2008, with joblessness mostly identified as the cause) - agrees that trouble arises when "the boundaries between family members are not clear." The child victims of murder-suicides in the West are typically killed in violent attacks, as one partner's way of taking revenge on the other. In Asia, on the other hand, parents leap together with their children or succumb arm in arm to carbon monoxide inhalation in a kind of ghastly euthanasia...
...seventh floor of a Kowloon shopping mall in February before leaping herself was not an immigrant, she was unhinged by feelings of social and financial despair. The mother apparently believed that her daughter's failure to win a highly coveted place at an international school had doomed the child to a life of mediocrity and that it would be best for them to die together (the girl miraculously survived unhurt, her fall broken by netting...