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Cheryl Wetzstein

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

College degree, religious faith help marriages ‘survive’ to 20th year

America's marriage culture may be changing, but two statistics look about the same as they did 30 years ago.

March 22, 2012

Study: Families trending toward open adoptions

An estimated 95 percent of U.S. infant adoptions now have some level of openness between birth parents and adoptive parents, unlike earlier decades, when such contact was routinely denied, says a report released Wednesday..

March 21, 2012

Panel’s ruling a boost to anti-smoking warnings

The federal government can require tobacco companies to "reserve significant packaging space" for anti-smoking warnings and graphic images on their cigarette labels, a three-judge appellate panel ruled Monday.

March 19, 2012

Marriage education no sure solution

Marriage education improves relationships and lowers levels of marital distress, but doesn't deter divorce, at least in the short-term, says a new federally funded study.

March 18, 2012

Number of adults returning to their family homes growing

It's been confirmed: They are down with living in the basement.

March 15, 2012

Planned Parenthood accused of $6M fraud

A Planned Parenthood affiliate in Texas knowingly sent in about $6 million in false claims to Medicaid and took steps to cover up its acts, says a federal "whistleblower" lawsuit that was unsealed Friday.

March 11, 2012

Agriculture official defends vigilance on food stamps

Obama administration officials at a House hearing Thursday tried to push back against recent investigative reports detailing problems and fraud in the nation's food-stamp program.

March 8, 2012

Group calls study on mental health, abortion ‘debunked’

In the simmering battle over abortion and mental-health problems, a reproductive-health organization says a published study linking the two has been "decisively debunked," while the lead author of the study says her findings still stand.

March 5, 2012

Obama defunds ‘snowflake babies’

The federal government's only program aimed at preventing the discarding of "extra" frozen human embryos is itself in danger of being discarded.

March 4, 2012

Court snuffs out FDA rule on cigarette-pack notices

The federal government cannot force tobacco companies to put large graphic images and anti-smoking warnings on their cigarette packages, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.

February 29, 2012

Doctors call for HPV shots for boys

Despite lackluster acceptance among girls for a vaccine to prevent cancer-causing sexually transmitted viruses, the American Academy of Pediatrics is fully recommending that boys get the shots as well.

February 27, 2012

Washington state can’t force pharmacies to sell emergency-contraception pill

Washington state officials are permanently blocked from enforcing rules that tell pharmacies and pharmacists they have to stock emergency-contraception products regardless of any religious objections, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.

February 22, 2012

Battle lines are drawn over whether Obama is waging a war on religion

There's a war raging over the "war on religion." President Obama's public clash with U.S. Catholic bishops in recent weeks over the issue of health insurance coverage for birth-control services has ignited a wider debate over whether the administration's policies such as gay marriage, abortion and employment-discrimination laws are running roughshod over religious freedom.

February 20, 2012

Obama contraception mandate gets support from Catholics

A group of Catholic leaders went against the church's bishops Wednesday and called for support of President Obama's latest contraception-insurance policy, though the call happened the same day a prominent group of Catholic priests filed a federal lawsuit against it.

February 15, 2012

No end near in uproar over insurance coverage of contraception

President Obama's efforts last week have failed to quell the fury over his decision to require most health plans to cover contraception. Republicans are still promising a fight in Congress, and two leading Catholic groups remain on the fence although the administration thought they had been won over.

February 14, 2012