Word: divorcee
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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One may then ask why women continue to divorce their husbands if the facts reveal an inevitable decline in their lives and the lives of their children. Kurz discovers that most women divorce out of necessity. Kurz claims, "Women do not divorce casually, or for trivial reasons."
Serious difficulties such as domestic violence, alcoholism, drug abuse and chronic infidelity plagued these marriages. More than fifty percent of the interviewees reported a few violent incidents during their marriages which sometimes continue after the divorce. Most women find that divorce in itself is not the problem, but the economic...
Kurz refuses the ideas that the family breakdown and divorce are direct causes the work force without devoting though time to their families. Instead of declaring a media war on the decline of the family, Kurz demands real legislation to combat family poverty and domestic violence.
Facts reveal that funds for the AFDC have consistently declined while wages have consistently gone down and eligibility for AFDC has tightened. In other words, Kurz points out that the growth in divorce rates and the increase in female-headed families have not been addressed adequately by social reforms.
Kurz vaguely discusses the need for social supports such as reform in custody and visitation laws, recognition of the unequal status of men and women (most divorce law assumes equal parenting between men and women), and improvement in wages and benefits for women. Kurz says, "Such measures would show a...