Word: divorcee
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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A generation that watched its parents divorce and then saw technology increasingly elevate E-mail and faxes over the human touch finds itself yearning for the days not of its parents but of its grandparents. "You get constant change coming at you, and the reaction is to head to the...
The trend can baffle parents who have fought their own divorce wars. When America Ehnot, 25, a Seattle marketing rep, told her father she was getting married next spring, he blankly looked back and forth between her and her fiance. "Why?" he asked. "You've already got six marriages between...
As Buckley sees it, four main issues in the church today "strain reason as well as faith": clerical celibacy, women priests, contraception, and the indissolubility of marriage. He accepts Rome's position on all four, although he is troubled by the reasoning behind the ban on birth control, hopes for...
Suzanne Dillon, 24, and her brother Michael, 26, immediately came to their stepfather's defense, with Suzanne contributing her father's $65,000 life insurance to defend Scher, her "dad." She and her brother testified on his behalf at the trial, which began last month. However, there were other voices...
Thank you, Robert Wright, for bringing the subtleties of adult differentiation, autonomy and egotism to the attention of the general public in the review of Peter Kramer's book about divorce, Should You Leave? [FAMILY, Oct. 6]. Conservatives who criticize Kramer for suggesting a healthy separation of the self for...