Husband and Wife divorce.

During divorce, Wife accuses Husband of stalking her.

Husband initially pleads not guilty to the charge.

Then Wife finds a GPS under her car.

Following police interrogation, Husband concedes that he placed the GPS there.

Why not? Husband reportedly believes he was within his “rights” because he owned the car jointly with Wife and Wife allegedly threatened to abscond with their children.

Whom, by the way, Husband gave birth to.

Husband is transgender, with his female reproductive organs intact. Wife cannot get pregnant.

Practical solution: artificial insemination of Husband.

And so Husband becomes pregnant man … with great notoriety.

Husband and Wife’s divorce took over three years. Because, when they divorce was filed, Arizona did not recognize same sex marriage or divorce divorce.

As for the criminal charge against him, Husband reconsiders and pleads guilty to disorderly conduct.

Read more in this ABC TV 15 news article: Thomas Beatie update: Arizona ‘pregnant man’ pleads guilty to disorderly conduct .

Pennsylvania Mother has fourteen year old Daughter.

Mother allegedly injects Daughter and her sixteen year old Boyfriend with heroin … more than once.

As many as three times, by her own admission.

Mother is arrested for endangering the welfare of children, corruption of minors, drug delivery and some additional counts.

Mother’s Boyfriend also allegedly provided another form of heroin for the teenagers to “snort”.

Mother is in jail pending posting a bond of $50,000.

Boyfriend is also under arrest, for dealing drugs and child corruption.

Read more in

1. this (Raleigh, NC) Eyewitness News 11 ABC TV article: Mother injected teenagers with heroin, DA says
2. this (Chester County, PA) Fox 8 TV News article: Mom admits to injecting 14-year-old daughter, daughter’s boyfriend with heroin and
3. this (Bala Cynwyd, PA) WCAU NBC 10 news article: ‘Depraved’ Mother Injects Teenage Daughter, Friend With Heroin: District Attorney .

Ohio Husband and Wife divorce. Sort of.

They are Orthodox Jews. And they were divorced by a secular family court.

But, being Orthodox, neither may remarry without a religious divorce, called a get. Under Jewish law, the Husband must consent to the get.

And, in some instances, the husband, like this Husband, refuses. Indefinitely. For no good reason.

Prompting some in the Orthodox Jewish religious community to try to intervene on behalf of the Wife who is, in effect, held hostage. Sometimes the intervention is private.

Sometimes it is anything but.

In the case of Wife, one of a very small, close knit Orthodox community in the Dayton area, a rally will be held to draw attention to the injustice against Wife, and others like her.

Husband reportedly abandoned Wife and their five children many years ago. At least one rabbi characterizes Husband’s conduct as domestic abuse, and a transgression under Jewish law.

In Israel, the Rabbinate issued a ruling that Husband must grant Wife a get … subjecting Husband to imprisonment there for his failure to comply. Metropolitan US rabbinates have confirmed the Israeli Rabbinate’s ruling.

It’s too late to help Wife, but her case also serves to highlight a relatively new and highly effective strategy to protect wives from just such situations: halachic prenuptial agreements. In halachic prenups, husbands agree in advance to grant their wives a get in the event of a secular divorce.

Halachic prenuptial agreements have been upheld and enforced consistently.

Read more in this Times of Israel article: Stuck in Jewish divorce limbo, Israeli woman wins viral support .

Indian Husband is convinced Wife is engaged in an affair … with their son-in-law.

They argue. Husband enters jealous rage.

Husband allegedly beheads Wife with an axe.

Having apparently snapped completely, Husband allegedly carries Wife’s head outside their home and walks the streets of their town with it.

Until, eventually, police catch up with him and arrest him for murder.

Read more in

1. this New York Daily News article: Indian man allegedly carries wife’s head while taking stroll as passersby look on in horror
2. this New Delhi TV news article: Pune Man Beheads Wife, Walks With Her Head on the Street and
3. this Indian Express news article: Man beheads wife, walks with her head in Katraj area in Pune .

After Wife’s family reportedly pays Husband a dowry, Indian Muslim Husband and Wife marry.

Within a matter of weeks, Husband reportedly leaves the country for work in Dubai … and, using a mobile app called WhatsApp, text messages Wife an Arabic phrase which translates into English as divorcing. Husband follows the text with a “courtesy” e-mail and phone call delivering the same message.

It turns out that Husband had provided Wife with bogus work and home addresses in Dubai.

Wife, no fool, reportedly files complaints with the Indian family court, police and a so-called “women’s commission”. The authorities are actively engaged in locating Husband, to hold him accountable for his distasteful conduct.

Religious scholars debate the validity of invoking religious divorce via apps, text messages and similar technology. But the invoking Husbands are reportedly moving right along to their next wives – and, perhaps, dowry.

And while they are debating, it appears that an epidemic of such divorces is spreading like wildfire across the Muslim world …

Read more in:

1. this New Delhi TV news article: Divorced on WhatsApp 10 Days After Marriage, Alleges Kerala Woman
2. this UK Mirror news article: Man divorces wife on WhatsApp after just THREE weeks – because she was ‘like an apple’
3. this UK Independent news article: Man in India ‘uses Whatsapp to divorce wife’ after just three weeks
4. this Emirates 24|7 news article: Man divorces wife by ‘WhatsApp’ to marry again
5. this Arabian Business article: Around 1,000 Dubai couples divorced over rows related to social media and
6. this Gulf Digital News Online article: UAE: Couple get divorces because of WhatsApp .

Husband and Wife have two Daughters together, ages eight and twelve.

Husband and Wife argue.

Wife flees the home and gets in their car with Daughters.

Husband follows and won’t back off, clawing at car.

Wife hits Husband with the car. Reportedly, accidentally.

Wife is arrested and charged with aggravated vehicular homicide and reckless homicide.

Wife, a school teacher, is suspended from her job.

Then a recording of the 911 call by elder Daughter is released.

The chilling call reveals that Husband had attacked Wife. And possibly the elder Daughter.

Daughters and Wife are clearly terrified.

The criminal charges against Wife are dismissed.

Wife is reinstated in her teaching job.

Conclusions were apparently leaped to.

Read more in:

1. this CBS News Crimesider article: Police: Teacher ran over husband while daughters were in car
2. this CBS News Crimesider article: Charges dropped against teacher in husband’s car strike death and
3. this New York Daily News article: Ohio woman who was attacked by her husband runs over him in a car with children inside; charges dropped: reports .

Amish Husband and Wife have several children including Daughter.

Daughter, at ten years old, is diagnosed with cancer.

Daughter’s physicians prescribe chemotherapy.

After beginning her course of chemotherapy, Daughter and her family do not want to continue with it.

Ohio family court appoints a medical Guardian for Daughter.

Guardian wishes to keep Daughter on chemotherapy.

In 2013, Husband and Wife flee with Daughter and the rest of their family to Mexico to pursue alternative treatments for Daughter.

At this time, Daughter and her family have returned to Ohio and Daughter is cancer-free.

Guardian has withdrawn her decision for Daughter to undergo more chemotherapy.

The Ohio family court has terminated the appointment of Guardian.

Read more in

• this Reuters article: Court battle over Amish girl’s cancer treatment ends and
• this UK Daily Mail article: Amish girl, 12, is ‘cancer free’ two years after her family was forced into hiding over court battle to force her to have chemotherapy, as judge drops case .

Twenty year old Saudi Wife and Husband have been married for only seven months.

But Wife has just divorced Husband anyway.

Her grounds? Husband is too short.

It is not reported whether Husband shrank after the couple got engaged, or even after their wedding day.

The difference in their heights is presumably great, and Wife has presumably been subjected to a tremendous amount of embarrassing teasing.

Ironically though, a study out of NYU suggests that shorter men make better husbands and are less likely than taller men to divorce. So Wife may come to regret abandoning her love match because of what other people think.

Read more in

1. this UK Mirror article: Saudi wife divorces husband because he is too short and she can’t bear being teased
2. this Emirates 24|7 News story: Woman seeks divorce from ‘short’ husband
3. this Huffington Post article: New Study Reveals Interesting Link Between Men’s Height And Divorce and
4. this New Republic article: Short Men Make Better Boyfriends and Husbands .

After roughly a decade of a trend of decreasing numbers of children in foster care in the US, 2014 saw a sharp uptake.

The reason for the significant increase is not known, but the diminishing numbers over the previous decade are largely a result of politics, that is, changing policies and procedures whose goal was to shorten and avoid stays in foster care regardless of circumstances.

Read more in this San Franciso Chronicle article: Number of US children in foster care up sharply .

British Mother has Daughter.

Daughter’s eighteenth birthday approaches.

Mother plans a special celebration.

Mother purchases almost six grams of … cocaine (street value about $1,000).

Mother’s plan is for Mother and Daughter to “snort” the cocaine while driving in a limo to London for an evening of partying.

It would undoubtedly have been a night to remember – except that Mother, who has several prior convictions, including one for drug possession, is arrested before the big day.

To Mother’s (and Daughter’s, I suppose,) dismay, the big day doesn’t come off as planned.

But, on the bright side, Mother receives only a suspended jail sentence (so she can care for a minor child she has and her elderly grandmother), and her only punishment is having to do community service.

Now that’s something to celebrate.

Read more in

1. this New York Daily News article: British mom bought daughter cocaine as 18^th birthday present, narrowly avoids jail
2. this Inside Edition article: Mom Bought 12 Bags of Cocaine to Celebrate Her Daughter’s 18th Birthday and
3. this UK Daily Mail news article: Mum buys daughter 12 bags of cocaine for her 18th: She hires a limo for drug binge – but is spared jail .