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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

2nd Wives Club growing: Remarriages on the rise

Many blushing American brides have been down aisle before, says a new study that finds that four in 10 of new marriages have at least one partner who was previously married.

November 14, 2014
Eighty members of Congress have asked that a federal policy that bans gay and bisexual men from donating blood be changed by the end of the year. (Photo courtesy of Department of Defense 2014)

Gay blood-donor ban under review

The Obama administration begins a series of hearings Thursday that many expect will bring the first easing of the blanket ban on gay men donating blood, a ban that was instituted in the early days of the AIDS crisis.

November 12, 2014
Tasha Burns holds her daughter, Heaven, 13 months, as her son, Brian, 4 months, sleeps at rear in a Salvation Army homeless shelter in Oklahoma City on April 3, 2007. The Burns family has been homeless since Hurricane Katrina hit Florida in August of 2005. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Salvation Army can’t evict women for pregnancy: HUD

The Salvation Army has agreed to pay $12,000 to each of four homeless women and change its transitional-housing program policy under a pregnancy nondiscrimination settlement with a federal housing agency.

November 12, 2014
Signs outside a polling place support different opinions on an amendment to the Tennessee Constitution on Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2014, in Nashville, Tenn. The amendment would expand the power of legislators to pass more abortion regulations. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)

Pro-choice activists sue to stop Tennessee abortion amendment

A nationally watched Tennessee abortion amendment was passed overwhelmingly on Nov. 4, but pro-choice supporters are asking a federal judge to force a recount or set aside their loss on the grounds that the votes weren't properly tallied.

November 11, 2014
Healthy families, individuals and societies need and depend on families to be the primary keepers and transfer agents of a moral compass, says child psychologist Gary M. Barnard. (Associated Press)

Family values: Family finances hit by divorce, other factors

Wage stagnation and rising income inequality — two features of the current recovery that have puzzled both policymakers and analysts — may reflect not economic factors, but a vast change over the decades in the structure of the American family, in particular the decline in the number of married-parent families, according to a new study.

October 30, 2014
FILE - In this Feb. 20, 2013 file photo, an abortion protester stands outside the Red River Valley Women's Clinic in downtown Fargo, N.D. The director of North Dakota's sole abortion provider says medical abortions have ceased at the Fargo clinic following a North Dakota Supreme Court ruling Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2014, that upheld a 2011 state law limiting the use of drugs to perform abortions. (AP Photo/Dave Kolpack, File)

N.D. clinic stops offering abortion pills

The director of North Dakota's only abortion clinic said Wednesday her staff would stop providing abortions with pills, but would continue offering surgical abortions.

October 29, 2014
Vacationers enjoy the shore at Folly Beach, S.C., on July 1, 2014. (AP Photo/Bruce Smith) **FILE**

Vacations becoming a relic of the past?

The American habit of taking four weeks off work each year seems to have gone with the wind. A new study finds that U.S. employees now average a mere 16 vacation days from work — the lowest annual amount in the last four decades.

October 21, 2014
FILE - In this Sept. 28, 2014 file photo Iowa Republican senate candidate Joni Ernst takes questions after debating her Democratic opponent U.S. Rep. Bruce Braley in Indianola, Iowa. As time runs short in the competitive Iowa Senate race, Democrats are trying to tarnish the centerpiece of Republican Ernst’s successful Senate campaign _ her appealing image as a down-to-earth farm girl. (AP Photo/Justin Hayworth, File)

New ad links Iowa’s Ernst to Akin, Mourdock

Two ads attacking Iowa State Sen. Joni Ernst for her pro-life views were launched Thursday, hours before she was scheduled to participate in a final debate with her Democratic rival.

October 16, 2014