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Marital Loneliness and Difficult Discoveries Oct. 22, 2024
Dear Annie: For the past four years, my wife and I have barely spoken. We don't share anything or do... Read More
Six-Year Sentence for Consensual Teen Sex Oct. 19, 2023
When Henry was 18, he had sex with a 16-year-old he met on a dating app who said he was 18, too. The... Read More
How SCOTUS Promoted Pernicious Myths About Sex Offender Registries: 20 Years Ago, the Justices Deemed Registration Preventive Rather Than Punitive Mar. 01, 2023
This Sunday marks the 20th anniversary of Smith v. Doe, a Supreme Court decision that approved retro... Read More
How Long Should I Keep Secrets for My Dad? Jan. 17, 2023
Dear Annie: Here's my dilemma: I moved back into my dad's house several years ago, and he has been g... Read More
Time to Purge Bloated Sex Offender Registries Apr. 09, 2022
Those who fight for a more equitable way to keep track of sexual predators won a big victory in Mich... Read More
September 29, 2021 Sep. 29, 2021
Dear Annie: My daughter just learned that a registered sex offender is living next door to her and h... Read More
Choose and Commit May. 03, 2021
Dear Annie: I'm so confused, and I don't know what to do. I have been married for four months, and I... Read More
Would You Label This Man a Sex Offender? Oct. 22, 2020
Carol Nesteikis' son Adam is 33. He is developmentally disabled and lives in Illinois with Carol and... Read More
'Boring' Home Confinement Can Lead to Trouble Apr. 04, 2020
I got a letter recently that made me wonder what Americans are doing to pass the time during the cur... Read More
The Bad Prince Nov. 28, 2019
No one forced him to go. The photo and video make clear that there was no one holding a gun to his ... Read More
The Other Halloween Myth That Won't Die Oct. 31, 2019
Three people on the sex offense registry in Georgia are suing the Butts County Sheriff's Office for ... Read More
When Is a Public Touch on the Arm or Waist a Sex Crime? Oct. 17, 2019
Last fall, in Manchester, England, an awkward 19-year-old male student touched a 17-year-old female ... Read More
Do Sex Registries Really Protect the Public? Jul. 20, 2019
Sex registries are in the news again thanks to a couple of high-profile child sex abuse cases. (Thin... Read More
The Secretary of Labor Needs to Go Jul. 11, 2019
Alexander Acosta, as the U.S. attorney in Miami, was responsible for cutting the deal that allowed n... Read More
She Wanted to Spice Up Her Marriage and Wound Up Needing Pepper Spray May. 17, 2019
After 25 years, a marriage can go stale. That was the state of Andie's marriage when she met Brian. ... Read More
Sex Offender Registry Afoul of Constitution Jan. 28, 2019
Michigan lawmakers seem keen on making important reforms to the state's criminal justice system, whi... Read More
Our Pointless, Vicious, Very American Culture of Shame Jan. 18, 2019
Puritanism's obsession with guilt and shame, Nathaniel Hawthorne believed, was America's original si... Read More
Who's Scarier, the Sex Offender or the Judge? Dec. 14, 2017
It was more than two years ago when Zach Anderson of Elkhart, Indiana, met a girl on the app Hot or ... Read More
Crime and Autism Oct. 20, 2016
The law professor stood at the front of the classroom and introduced Nick, his 30-something son, say... Read More
In 2016 Trump Learns, a Kiss Is Not Just a Kiss Oct. 16, 2016
Yes, it has come to this. The New York Times reported on its front page Thursday that Donald Trump f... Read More
