Healthcare in Sweden

Everyone in Sweden has equal access to health-care services. The Swedish health-care system is taxpayer-funded and largely decentralized. The system performs well in comparison with other countries at a similar level of development, with good medical results relative to investments and despite funding restrictions.
Life expectancy in Sweden continues to rise. In 2008, it was 79 [...]

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Child Support Help for Parents Impacted by Layoffs

This is long time overdue but I guess it is better late than never. Hopefully, it will offer some help and assistance for non-custodial parents who struggle to get their child support modifications put in place due to layoffs and disabilities that prevent them from earning a living AND be able to make child support [...]

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Dr. Phil: Forced to be a Deadbeat Dad.

Send this picture as an ecardOn February 27, 2009, the show “Forced to be a Deadbeat Dad” on Dr. Phil aired. It is about time that someone tried to shine some light on the current family court issue, and the increase in “deadbeat dads” or rather “driven away dads” in the last 20 years since [...]

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Happy Valentine’s Day

Send this picture as an ecardHappy Valentine’s Day!
We want to wish all of you out there a great and happy Valentine’s Day. We spent ours in the quiet corners of our home because our little baby girl was sick with a pretty bad cold. We all had a nice time though and Linn was [...]

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Child Support: How much is too much?

On Jan. 1, Massachusetts adopted new child-support guidelines that will likely raise the amount paid by non-custodial parents, usually fathers.

Are the new guidelines excessive and unfair, as a lawsuit charges? Or were the old guidelines too stingy? How much child support is enough? How much is too much?

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Swedish vs. American Parenting

Send this picture as an ecardAs a Swede growing up in Sweden but now living with a family in the United States of America, brings many issues about parenting to the surface.  The parenting values, benefits, laws, and morals are very different between the two countries. Lately, I have been focusing on the United States [...]

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