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

Lawmakers in R.I., Maryland to weigh gay-marriage laws

Maryland lawmakers reintroduced a gay-marriage bill on Thursday, making it the second state after Rhode Island to start the process this year of changing its marriage laws. Published January 20, 2011

WETZSTEIN: Making a case for monogamy

When practiced faithfully, monogamy seems to benefit humanity far more than any kind of "big love." Published January 17, 2011

Stepfamilies find ‘blend’ satisfying, not as expected

More than four in 10 American adults have at least one step-relative in their family, a new study says. Published January 13, 2011

WETZSTEIN: New hope rises for autism science

The United Kingdom's prestigious medical journal BMJ last week released what appears to be damning evidence about a 1998 study by Dr. Andrew Wakefield and colleagues in which they saw an association with a childhood vaccination and onset of autism in eight previously normal children. Published January 10, 2011

Journal calls study that linked autism to vaccines a ‘fraud’

A 1998 British study that launched an international fear that certain childhood vaccinations can cause autism has been labeled an "elaborate fraud" in a medical journal. Published January 6, 2011

Pediatricians track survival of the ‘tiniest’ of preemies

In the annals of human birth, there has never been such an "extraordinary group" of people as those who are part of the Tiniest Babies Registry. Published January 5, 2011

Anti-polygamy law challenged in Canada court

A court hearing challenging Canada's anti-polygamy law on religious freedom grounds resumes Wednesday in British Columbia and will eventually include testimony from men and women who are living in multiple-partner marriages. Published January 4, 2011

WETZSTEIN: Moms deliver birth records

A recent federal report on American childbearing was literally bursting with records. But it may be hard to tell the good news from the maybe-not-so-good news. Published January 4, 2011

‘Abstinent’ teens test positive for STDs

More than 10 percent of teens who said they were abstinent also tested positive for a sexually transmitted disease, says a study in Pediatrics released Monday — a figure public health advocates say justifies screening all teens for such diseases. Published January 3, 2011

California No. 1 in marijuana admissions

California, a national leader in medical marijuana use, saw admissions for treatment for marijuana dependence more than double over the past decade, the federal government said in a first-of-its-kind report. Published December 30, 2010

WETZSTEIN: Americans exceptional in fertility

American "exceptionalism" has started popping up in commentaries and newscasts. The phrase is traced back to French historian Alexis de Tocqueville, who in the 1830s tried to explain to European elites why and how Americans were so different from them. Published December 27, 2010

WETZSTEIN: Golden cloth reunites couple

This time of year, people may e-mail each other a story about a "golden" tablecloth from the World War II years. Published December 20, 2010

Majority of teens live in ‘rejection’ families

More than half of American teens have grown up with parents who "rejected each other," which bodes ill for the nation's future leadership, productivity, wealth and well-being, says a new national report on American families. Published December 15, 2010

Pot survey fires up debate over messages to youths

In 2010, American teens' past-month use of marijuana rose high enough to eclipse their use of cigarettes, according to a national report on teen substance abuse — a finding that the White House and public-health officials blamed in part on drug-legalization efforts. Published December 14, 2010

WETZSTEIN: ‘Marshall Plan’ for marriage gap

For at least a generation, marriage and family cohesion have been unraveling in America's low-income families. Now this rending of family ties is spreading into America's middle class, the home of hard-working, blue-collar, service-industry people who graduated from high school but didn't quite land that college degree. Published December 13, 2010

Lawmakers in 3 states gird against abortionist

Pro-life advocates in Maryland, Iowa and Indiana are pushing back with rallies and talk of more restrictive legislation as one of the nation's most prominent late-term abortion doctors works to expand his practice in all three states. Published December 9, 2010