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Cheryl Wetzstein

cwetzstein@washingtontimes.com

Cheryl Wetzstein, a Washington Times staff member since 1985, is manager of special sections in The Washington Times' Advertising and Marketing Department.
Previously, she spent 30 years as a Washington Times news reporter, covering national domestic policy, in addition to being a features writer, environmental and consumer affairs reporter, and assistant business editor.
Beginning in 1994, Mrs. Wetzstein worked exclusively on welfare and family issues such as child support enforcement, abstinence and sex education, child welfare, sexually transmitted diseases, marriage, divorce, cohabiting and gay marriage.
She has won several newspaper awards, including 1977 Cub Reporter of the Year and 1983 Heart of New York award, both from the New York Press Club.

Articles by Cheryl Wetzstein

Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan of New York said that President Obama has not responded to a letter he wrote about the Catholic Church's concerns. (Associated Press)

Bishops push back against Obama on social issues

Alarmed by what they see as deeper government intrusion into issues such as reproductive health care and gay marriage, the nation's Catholic bishops have created a committee to identify and resist threats to religious freedom.

October 5, 2011

Study: Modern economies ‘rise and fall’ with nuclear families

If the wealth of a nation is tied to both the quality and the quantity of its people, then modern trends toward cohabiting instead of marrying, easy divorce and fewer children born to couples will have sweeping economic consequences, a new report says.

October 3, 2011

Census: Households led by gay couples rose 80 percent

The number of U.S. households led by same-sex couples rose about 80 percent in the past 10 years, and more than 130,000 couples listed themselves as married, new U.S. Census Bureau data show.

September 27, 2011
** FILE ** Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick (Associated Press)

Alimony reform in Mass. ends pay until death

Gov. Deval Patrick has signed a sweeping reform of Massachusetts' alimony system that activists are praising as bringing rational criteria to a hodgepodge system and for ending "alimony-until-death" payments.

September 26, 2011

Backers rally for tough ‘heartbeat’ abortion bill

Hundreds of pro-life supporters rallied Tuesday as part of a drive to make Ohio the first state in the country to pass a law effectively banning abortions once a fetal heartbeat is detected.

September 20, 2011

Gays take fight against DOMA to Connecticut

The House of Representatives has failed to defend its federal marriage law, and it should be thrown out, attorneys for six gay couples and a gay widower said in recent court papers.

September 18, 2011
L.F. Eason of Cary, N.C., voices his opposition to a state constitutional amendment that would say marriage between a man and a woman is the only legaldomestic union in North Carolina, at a rally in Raleigh on Tuesday, the day the state Senate voted to put the marriage issue to a vote in 2012. (Associated Press)

Same-sex marriage ban will be on 2012 ballot in N.C.

North Carolina voters will decide in May whether to effectively ban same-sex marriages in the state constitution, now that both chambers of the Republican-dominated General Assembly have passed a bill allowing the measure to be put on the ballot.

September 13, 2011

New poverty numbers reflect post-recession blues

In the first full calendar year after the Great Recession, the U.S. poverty rate jumped past 15 percent, the highest in 17 years, as a new historical high of 46.2 million Americans fell below the official poverty line, the Census Bureau said Tuesday.

September 13, 2011

Granting personhood to fetuses will be on Miss. ballot

The Mississippi Supreme Court on Thursday cleared the way for an amendment to the state constitution granting "personhood" to fetuses to go to voters in November though the court did not render a position on the measure's constitutionality, should it pass.

September 8, 2011

Report: Severe hunger affects fewer households

Fewer U.S. households experienced severe hunger last year, but the overall number of homes struggling to keep healthy meals on the table every day stayed the same.

September 7, 2011

As porn’s pre-eminent domain, .xxx to mark spot

Beginning this week, the Internet's "red-light district" will be open for business as the rush for ".xxx" domain registrations starts in earnest, but whether the new tag to alert — and attract — Web surfers to porn sites will meet expectations is a matter of sharp debate.

September 4, 2011

Alabama latest state to impose abortion restrictions

Alabama on Thursday officially became the fifth state in the nation to restrict abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, the latest in a wave of new state efforts to curb the practice this year.

August 31, 2011

GOP leaders push to have marriage defined in N.C.

Two Republican leaders in the North Carolina legislature said Tuesday they will push for passage of a marriage referendum, which, if passed by voters in 2012, would make their state the final one in the Southeast to define marriage in the state constitution as the union of a man and a woman.

August 30, 2011

ACLU battles schools over gay websites

A fierce legal battle on free speech and family values is brewing about Internet filters used by school administrators to block students' access to gay educational and advocacy websites.

August 29, 2011