Kate Gosselin appeared on The Today Show to talk about allegations of her husband's cheating, raising a family of eight, and living in the public eye. She celebrates motherhood, believing that being a mother is the best and hardest job.
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Thinking about getting married, see if you can count to five. Statistics Canada found that couples who can survived 5 years of marriage are less likely to get divorced. Before the first anniversary, there was less than one divorce for every 1,000 marriages in 2002. After the first anniversary, the divorce rate increased to 4.3 for every 1,000 marriages, 18 per 1,000 after the second anniversary, 25 after the third and 25.7 after the fourth. Read more.
How do angry female drivers come about? Especially, in Los Angeles, people tend to wonder about that quite often. It seems like they have their fathers to blame. They learn to yell obscenities at other motorists. Make sure daughters do not learn to drive from their fathers if they are to be pleasant on the road. Finnish scientists found through anecdotal evidence that teenage girls drive more aggressively if they learn to drive from their fathers. Read more.
The U.S. is on a manhunt for their father, Saddam Hussein. He's the person responsible for the deaths of their husbands. The two sisters, Raghad and Rana's family defected to Jordan. They were were lured back to Iraq when their father promised forgiveness. When they got there, their husbands were killed. Nonetheless, his is their father. They portrayed his humanity and inhumanity. Such is the complexity of human kind.
"He was a very good father, loving, had a big heart, loved his daughters, sons, grandchildren," Raghad said. "He was the one we always go to."
What do you do when your men come home drunk and violent? The women in India have come up with a solution. Female Indian villagers are taking control of their men and their drunken behavior. They've started an anti-liquor movement that's catching on. They punish men who drink too much by lashing them and stripping them naked in public. The women's actions have reduced the domestic violence and harrassment in their communities. Read more.
Anna recently married latin hearthrob Enrique Iglesia. She has not been able to play tennis because of a back injury. No matter. She is making a lot more through commerical contracts. Tennis made her famous but it's not what is keeping her famous. Julio Iglesia says that probably he will have a Russian grandchild soon. Read more.
Laleh and Ladan Bijani both died during a 52-hour operation at Raffles Hospital in Singapore last Tuesday. They were finally buried side by side in separate coffins yesterday in southern Iran. Thousands of mourners attended the funeral. Much controversy surrounds their surgery and death. What is clear is they died for a dream of leading separate lives. For them, living conjoined was worse than death. Read more.
The Velez family was on vacation from Australia in Chile when a hit and run killed their 10-month-old Mariana Velez. They decided to donate Mariana's liver to a very ill baby, Matias Guajardo. They turned their own trajedy into hope for another baby. The mother of donor recipicient Matias is overwhelmed with emotion.
"They came here, they were just passing through and what they left behind was a great lesson of love."
Albert Einstein wrote, "A person who has not made his great contribution to science before the age of 30 will never do so." Satoshi Kanazawa, a psychologist at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, studied the biographies of 280 scientists and found that scientific productivity fades with age. His study revealed that within five years of marriage, nearly 25% of the scientists made their last contribution to science. Criminals who are married also stop committing crimes. According to Kanazawa, the reason is men become competitive to gain the attention of women. Read more.
Women should beware of the "the revolt of 40-year-old men" or the "crisis of forty years". Men in their 40s experience something similar to woman's menopause. Psychologists from developed countries have found that on average every married man at the age of 43-50 gets married one more time. Why does this happen? Most scientists believe it is a psychological phenomenon.
They say fear is the reason why men behave so. Men start realizing that the life is passing by, that they will never experience anything new and unusual, that they are inevitably getting old.
