This week's winner in reality TV's the-premise-may-be-better-than-the-series category: "TOMMY LEE GOES TO COLLEGE," wherein Mr. Lee, the repeatedly divorced, violence-prone rock star, hits the books at the University of Nebraska.
The panel would also look at divorce, domestic violence and custody cases.
That inquiry focuses on identical areas including divorce, domestic violence and custody cases.
Researchers who studied the aftermath of the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill said coastal residents of Alaska saw a higher incidence of suicide, divorce, domestic violence and substance abuse.
Among the topics on which the committee is seeking evidence are: the range of services offered by sharia councils, reasons for their use, and how sharia law deals with family, divorce, domestic violence and child custody cases.
But in the United States, secular courts cannot interfere in a religious divorce, and violence is likely to result in an arrest, as in the case of a Lakewood, N.J., couple apprehended last July for arranging the kidnapping and beating of a man who refused to give a get.
It also wants a host of new studies on the relationship between gambling and various social problems, such as bankruptcy, divorce, domestic violence, suicide and crime; and it recommends sorting out the sovereignty issues related to Indian gaming.Both pro- and anti-gambling forces think the report is on their side.
That harm might be deaths from cirrhosis, suicide, pancreatititis, cardiomyopathy, or the dozens of other medical conditions caused by alcohol or divorce, domestic violence, murder, drunken driving, absenteeism from work, or the many other social problems in which alcohol plays such an important part.
Children are expected to deal with divorce, drugs, violence, merged families, and parents who do not speak to them.
Francis expressed concern about the challenges the African bishops faced in their communities, from abortion and divorce to violence against women and children.
