Word: divorcee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CBS REPORTS (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). "The Divorce Dilemma," a study of the New York law which, by making adultery the sole legal ground for dissolving a marriage, has helped create a new social phenomenon: migratory divorce.
AMERICANS do just about everything a bit more spectacularly than most other people. That includes marriage and divorce. The U.S. has the world's highest divorce rate, but it also leads in the rate of remarriage after divorce, an occurrence that frequently boosts the statistics by leading to yet...
The most significant happening in the divorce field is a widespread and growing attack on those laws. Whatever else marriage may be, the state regards it as a public contract that only the state can dissolve. The laws that govern that dissolution in the U.S., however, are not only widely...
The system has not only succeeded in making divorce unpleasant, complicated and expensive; it has been woefully ineffective in its original aim of holding down divorce and protecting society from the problems that breakups produce. Roughly 400,000 U.S. couples are being divorced each year. About 40% of them are...
Most Americans still agree with Dr. Lawrence S. Kubie, clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of Maryland, that "divorce is always a tragedy no matter how civilized the handling of it, always a confession of human failure, even when it is the sorry better of sorry alternatives." But Americans...