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    WCW Research Scientist Will Implement PTSD Treatment in University Counseling Centers

    December 2023

    Katherine R. Buchholz, Ph.D., has been approved for a $2.5 million funding award by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute.

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    Health advisory on social media use in adolescence

    May 2023

    Senior Research Scientist Linda Charmaraman, Ph.D., co-authored a health advisory on social media use in adolescence released by the American Psychological Association.

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    PODCAST

    Journeys in Youth Development Podcast, Episode 4

    APRIL 2023

    NIOST director Georgia Hall, Ph.D., talks to Terrance Cauley, Senior Director in the Department of Youth, Family & Clinical Services at Better Family Life, Inc. in St. Louis, Missouri. Terrance highlights the importance of offering historically marginalized Black youth opportunities for self-definition, and discusses how he does this through his work in out-of-school time programming.

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    WCW Collaborates on $5 Million Project to Promote Sustainability in Liberia

    February 2023

    WCW will lead the design of a social inclusion strategy to empower women and young people in the Liberian forestry sector.

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    VIDEO

    Having 'The Talk' with Teens

    February 2023

    Jennifer Grossman, Ph.D., shares findings from interviews with fathers about how they try to make conversations with their teens about sex and dating less awkward.

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Wellesley Centers for Women 

is a research and action institute at Wellesley College that is focused on women and gender and driven by social change.
Our mission is to advance gender equality, social justice, and human wellbeing through high-quality research, theory, and action programs.

PROJECTS

Morocco’s Watershed Family Law


In early 2004, a milestone Family Law came into force supporting women’s equality and granting them rights in marriage and divorce, among others.

The 2004 legislation replaces the family law included in the Moudawana and includes the following reforms:


Gender Equality:

The joint responsibility for the family is shared between the husband and wife;

The wife is no longer legally obliged to obey her husband;

An adult woman is no longer under the guardianship of a male family member and is entitled to self-guardianship;

The age of marriage is raised to 18 for both men and women.


Divorce:

The right to divorce is the prerogative of both men and women, exercised under judicial supervision;

The principle of divorce is by mutual rather than unilateral consent.


Polygamy:

Polygamy is subject to judicial consent and governed under rigid legal conditions, making the practice nearly impossible;

The woman has the right to impose a condition in the marriage contract requiring that her husband refrain from taking other wives;

If there is no pre-established condition, the first wife must be informed of her husband’s intent to remarry, the second wife must be informed that her husband-to-be is already married, and moreover, the first wife may ask for a divorce due to harm suffered.


Children’s Rights:

The mother has the right to custody of the child even upon remarriage or relocation;
The child’s right to acknowledgment of paternity is protected in the event that the marriage has not been officially registered.

 
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