Word: accept
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that they can adjust nicely to an orderly divorce. "Divorce is not the costliest experience possible to a child," says Child Psychiatrist J. Louise Despert. "Unhappy marriage without divorce can be far more destructive." The gradual weakening of religious strictures against divorce has also tended to make it more acceptable; all but the most fundamental U.S. Protestants now accept civil divorce-and the "new moralists" go further. In destructive family situations, says the Rev. Dr. Joseph F. Fletcher, professor of Christian social ethics at the Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge, Mass., "divorce is the good thing to do: not merely...
...result is that the typical U.S. divorce trial is a farce that totally abdicates society's interest in salvaging marriage whenever possible. Most couples hammer out a collusive pretrial agreement in which one consents to accept the fault. The couple may sue on any of 47 assorted grounds, depending on the state. All 50 states recognize adultery as grounds for divorce, 44 accept cruelty, 47 desertion, 29 nonsupport, 40 alcoholism, 43 the commission of a felony and 32 impotence. By far the most common ground is the vague "cruelty," a catchall that conceals more than it reveals. The harried...
...theory, U.S. marriages can be ended only by the state of domicile-the state in which the parties really live. Actually, such states as Idaho and Nevada permit divorce after only six weeks' residence, and solemnly accept the visitor's lie that he or she aims to stay. The other states, including New York, accept such divorces because the Constitution commands all states to give "full faith and credit" to one another's court judgments. On the other hand, no state is required to recognize the highly popular 24-hour Mexican divorce, which shuns the domicile...
...when negotiations finally do occur, the more sharply defined military division of the country will force both sides to make reasonable assessments of their bargaining strengths. To facilitate that assessment, the United States should state now that it would be willing to accept the NLF as an equal party in negotiations and as a participant in any elections to determine the final political solution. We must realize, as Walter Lippmann points out, that "An absurd and impossible commitment is not a true commitment in law or morals, and a commitment to make General Ky the accepted ruler of South Vietnam...
...United States must also be prepared to accept a possible Communist victory at the polls -- and the establishment of a unified Vietnam under the Communists -- and in that eventuality to work with them toward independence from Peking. The Vietnamese still resent their centuries of subjugation to the Chinese; as Senator Fulbright suggests, there is a good possibility that the United States can help build the stage on which Ho Chi Minh plays Tito to Mao Tse Tung's Stalin...