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EVEN IF THE INSURgency in Iraq abates, how well prepared is the U.S. military to get on with the task of nation building? Not well at all, according to Defense Department documents TIME has obtained. Much of the work would be the responsibility of the Army's civil-affairs and psychological-operations units, both of which are undermanned and underequipped. "It's horrible," says a Pentagon official. "They're kind of a broken force...
COMMIT TO THE TASK. Oxfam and many other leaders in civil society have embraced the goal of Making Poverty History. The world as a whole needs now to embrace the goal...
...raft of proposed amendments to the Family Law Act, the plan's centerpiece is a nationwide network of Family Relationship Centres (FRCs), where counselors will help separating parents work out a parenting plan before their anger and hurt - perhaps occasionally stoked by lawyers - can mutate into intransigence. And a task force, established by the government last August and headed by University of Sydney law professor Patrick Parkinson, will report soon with ideas on reforming that instrument of justice that enrages separated parents, mostly fathers, as nothing else does: the wage-garnishing Child Support Scheme. On the eve of the changes...
...rare marriage bust from which both parties walk away smiling, but those not involving children are generally simpler. Most people need lawyers to help them divide up property - a task that can inflame passions, to be sure, though not usually as explosively (nor over as long a period) as the business of dividing up time with one's kids. In both Australia and New Zealand, one child in four lives apart from one of his natural parents. What troubles many is that the parent on the outer is usually the dad. Mothers gain residential custody in a fraction less than...
...maybe it funded gym membership for her and her new boyfriend. Adding insult to injury, the way child support works is that the less contact you have with your children, the more you pay. Due to report back to the government by the end of the month, the task force is expected to recommend a revamp of the 17-year-old scheme...