Word: divorcee
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THOSE WHO WOULD MAKE DIVORCE MORE difficult to obtain should know that this approach was tried before with disastrous results. In the middle of the 6th century A.D., the Roman Emperor Justinian I outlawed no-fault divorce in his famous Digest. For hundreds of years before that action, Romans had...
As devastating as my parents' divorce was for me, the depression I have battled most of my life was rooted in the 13 years of cold, angry marriage I lived through prior to their breakup. From a very early age I often felt powerless and sad, even though outwardly I...
Dole talks like someone who is a long way from retirement. "You've got to like this business, and I like politics," he told TIME. "Dan Quayle had me right when he said, 'When Bob Dole has a day off, he goes to a fund raiser.' " The Doles have never...
The scene resembles that in many a law-school classroom: two dozen earnest third-year students in jeans and flannel shirts sit at desks, their notebooks open in front of them. Behind the podium where assistant professor Lynne Marie Kohm stands, a sign on the blackboard advertises a bar-exam...
Wallerstein says her results have long been vindicated by more statistically complete studies she inspired, like the one by Princeton's Sara McLanahan that found that children of divorce drop out of high school, become teen mothers and are jobless far more frequently than their peers. Wallerstein insists that "I...