Word: divorcee
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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TONYA HARDING, whose nuptials made news not four months ago when she rammed a photographer's car, has filed for divorce. This despite the fact that her husband MICHAEL SMITH recently told a reporter that the only bad thing about his wife was that she drummed her fingernails. "Their thoughts...
Not that divorce is an enviable experience for any of the parties involved. But just as there are bad marriages, there are, as sociologist Constance Ahrons argues, "good divorces," in which both parents maintain their financial and emotional responsibility for the kids. Maybe the reformers should concentrate on improving the...
The antidivorce movement's interest in the emotional status of children would be more convincing if it were linked to some concern for their physical survival. The most destructive feature of divorce, many experts argue, is the poverty that typically ensues when the children are left with a low-earning...
Too difficult? Too costly? Too ideologically distasteful compared with denouncing divorce and, by implication, the divorced and their children? Perhaps. But sometimes grownups have to do difficult and costly things, whether they feel like doing them or not. For the sake of the children, that is.
DIVORCE ROYAL-STYLE