“Family” on The Daily Caller

Sheikh ‘Abd Al-Muhsin Al-’Obikan, an advisor at the Saudi Justice Ministry, recently issued a fatwa allowing the breastfeeding of adults. The fatwa is aimed at enabling an unrelated man and woman to be secluded in the same room, a situation which Islam considers forbidden gender mixing. The rationale behind the fatwa is that breastfeeding creates a bond of kinship between the man and woman, rendering the man her mahram,[1] thus making it acceptable for them to be together in seclusion. (more)

A COURT has ordered a mother not to breastfeed her six-year-old son. (more)

If your best friends’ marriage is falling apart then beware, yours could also be heading for the rocks. (more)

LOS ANGELES (AP) — They are show business royalty, heirs of the King of Pop. Someday, they will be very rich. But a year after their father Michael Jackson’s death, Prince, Paris and Blanket Jackson are normal kids full of fun and pranks, devoted to each other and to their grandmother who is their guardian, according to a lawyer who sees them frequently. (more)

Peter Rega maneuvers through South Florida traffic like a man on a mission. It’s nearing 5 p.m. and Rega, a divorced father, has wrapped up his sales calls and is on his way to pick his son up from after-school care. Cellphone to ear, Riga tells his customer he will call back in an hour, once he successfully shuttles his 12-year-old son, Peter, home for dinner and then to karate lessons. (more)

Robert Young, as the firm but fair button-down patriarch in the popular 1950s television series, “Father Knows Best,” was so convincing as an icon of veracity and wisdom, that he had in real life an even longer and more lucrative role in the 1960s selling the virtues of a certain brand of coffee. Now, two generations later, as Father’s Day 2010 approaches, it is appropriate to reflect on Madison Avenue’s current image of fatherhood and its impact on contemporary culture. (more)

Would you like a tax break for hiring a worker—say, a student, or even your spouse or child? (more)

For the first time ever, Levi Johnston has made on-time child support payments to his baby mama Bristol Palin for two consecutive months — but even more shocking, both sides are finally getting along!!! (more)

A friend of Sandra Bullock and her cheating husband Jesse James told FOXNews.com on Wednesday that the Oscar-winning actress has a “master plan” to end their six-year marriage. (more)

In 1858, a British epidemiologist named William Farr set out to study what he called the “conjugal condition” of the people of France. He divided the adult population into three distinct categories: the “married,” consisting of husbands and wives; the “celibate,” defined as the bachelors and spinsters who had never married; and finally the “widowed,” those who had experienced the death of a spouse. Using birth, death and marriage records, Farr analyzed the relative mortality rates of the three groups at various ages. The work, a groundbreaking study that helped establish the field of medical statistics, showed that the unmarried died from disease “in undue proportion” to their married counterparts. And the widowed, Farr found, fared worst of all. (more)

With her 5-week-old daughter crying in a bathroom at Nordstrom, and not knowing how to get the baby to latch on to her breast, Garima Nahar found herself surrounded by other women. Some offered tips, but one woman told the new mother to cover up or turn the other way. (more)

SAN’A, Yemen — A 13-year-old Yemeni girl has died of injuries to her genitals four days after a family-arranged marriage, a human rights group said. (more)

From its early beginnings the Tea Party was dismissed as irrelevant and then derided by the national media. In the summer of 2009 health reform was the hot topic of concern across the nation and to the Tea Party movement. The media, the Obama administration, and Democrats described opposition and questioning Tea Partiers as “mobsters, anti-American, and Nazis.” President Obama referred to them dismissively as “tea baggers.” The New York Times attempted to link Tea Partiers to militia extremists. (more)

The federal government and the state of Texas won’t recognize Noel Freeman’s eight-year relationship with another man as marriage, but the 2010 U.S. census will. (more)

FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s wife underwent surgery Friday to stabilize serious injuries suffered when a tractor-trailer rear-ended the minivan she and their daughter were riding in on an interstate highway. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s wife remained hospitalized Friday with serious injuries suffered when a tractor-trailer rear-ended the minivan she and their daughter were riding in on a suburban Virginia interstate, officials said. (more)

Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler released a long-awaited opinion Wednesday saying that Maryland should recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states, drawing cheers from gay-rights supporters and igniting immediate debate on a highly contentious issue in an election year. (more)

The woman sent by government scientists visited the Queens apartment repeatedly before finding anyone home. And the person who finally answered the door — a 30-year-old Colombian-born waitress named Alejandra — was wary. (more)

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The Colts have been schooled on how to be authentic and straightforward. And they are — unless there is something they want hidden. (more)

Men and women differ on what part of cheating they think is the worst: Men tend to be more bothered by sexual infidelity, while most women are bothered more by emotional infidelity. (more)