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...Divorce, which she published in 2000, explored the long-lasting impact of broken marriages, and is now a classic in the field. Her new book, What About the Kids? Raising Your Children Before, During, and After Divorce (Hyperion), is a guide for parents on how to make the breakup easier for all members of the family. TIME recently spoke with Wallerstein...
...First of all, 2 out of 3 divorces are sought by women. Second, most children are in the custody of their moms. Third, women, when they get divorced, know they really want to get away from Harry. What they don't realize is all that awaits them after the breakup--how much their role as a person will be different, how much their role as a parent is going to be different, and especially that they are going to be dealing with Harry for the rest of their life...
Women have an infinite capacity for guilt as moms. They're worried about their children at the time of the breakup. They're worried about what's going to be the short-term effect, the long-term effect. They have a sense that they're being less of a mother than they wanted to be. I really feel women have to overcome this, because nobody's perfect...
...military campaign of two or three days, everything becomes easier," a U.S. official told me several months ago when war was becoming more likely. "But if we get bogged down two or three months, with civilian casualties and destruction, it is a different story. This could unleash the breakup of Iraq. It is hard to break a cycle of collapse. Nobody can really say we have the means of handling the problems of Iraq after Saddam is gone...
...overthrow Saddam in 1991; Saddam's determination to hang onto those of his chemical and biological weapons he'd managed to keep out of the inspectors' hands in the early '90s; the failure of sanctions, covert coup attempts and a 1998 bombing campaign to dislodge the regime; the slow breakup of the Gulf War coalition as much of Europe and the Arab world found itself at odds with the U.S. and Britain over long-term sanctions; the emergence in the second Bush administration of a determined and increasingly influential core of activist conservative foreign policy ideologues promoting a doctrine...