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...legitimate fear of child abuse that Trumbull believes is largely behind the anti-spanking movement. The backlash started in the 1960s, he says, with the advent of more permissive parenting. But in the past decade or so, a shocking rise in child-abuse cases has had public-health officials scrambling for an explanation. Blaming spanking made sense; the notion that violence begets violence has a certain touchy-feely logic. Besides, most parents feel terrible after spanking their kids. What better reason...
...that created "covenant marriage," a more binding vow that can be ended only because of extreme circumstances. "You don't have to be abused or betrayed," Pollitt declared, "to have a bad marriage." Earlier Pollitt had baldly asserted, "Divorce is an American value." Thus, in a double backflip, the backlash against the backlash against divorce is under...
...seemed that 1990s America was growing as disillusioned with divorce as 1960s America had grown with marriage. As the backlash against divorce progressed, state legislatures across the country, in an as yet unsuccessful attempt to reduce what was still the world's highest divorce rate, called for a rollback of no-fault divorce laws and even for premarital waiting periods. Last week, in a melodramatic flourish, a North Carolina jury added to the simmering debate by taking the side of an abandoned wife, ordering the "other woman" to pay her $1 million (see following story). Though the decision was based...
Pollitt sees an ulterior motive behind the assault on no-fault divorce: a backlash against feminism. While husbands once initiated most divorces, the situation has reversed itself: more wives now seek divorces. And if you believe Ashton Applewhite, author of Cutting Loose: Why Women Who End Their Marriages Do So Well, divorce, though usually painful at first, is a true liberation for many wives. In her book, she profiles 50 women, including "Dina," an immigration attorney. The mother of two sons, Dina regrets agreeing to share custody with the children's father. Ultimately, though, she works things out, illustrating Applewhite...
Cardenas didn't rely solely on the backlash against the incumbents. Like Bill Clinton or Tony Blair with a Spanish accent, he ran a slick multimedia campaign that moved his party toward the center and reassured Mexico City's middle class that he would do nothing to interfere with its newfound prosperity. Asked after the election whether he still advocated renegotiation of the NAFTA treaty and renationalization of privatized firms, Cardenas answered that "investors shouldn't worry too much about me, because the mayor has little to do with national economic policy...