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That's about average in Spain these days. The rate of broken marriages has risen steadily since Spain legalized divorce in 1981. But a 2005 reform that removed such obstacles as a ? mandatory year-long separation prior to the granting of a divorce has caused those numbers to skyrocket...
"Divorce may be a sin, but if the marriage is hell, why would you stay?" asks Jiménez's son César Borrego, a 35-year-old pilot who divorced his wife in 2006 after eight years of marriage. It was a contentious divorce - the couple have two...
The link between macroeconomic trends and individual family choices is often hard to quantify. Still, few doubt that widening prosperity was a necessary precondition for Zapatero's momentous changes to Spain's social legislation. In the wake of his surprising 2004 victory - which many attributed to the incumbent Popular Party...
The evolution of social customs quietly accelerated after the dictator's death. Unlike the worldwide headlines generated by Zapatero's gay-rights legislation, there was barely a whisper with the 1978 approval of a law with much wider implications: the end to the long-standing ban on the sale of...
For Pilar Jiménez, there is no doubt that some old values have been lost. "Before, family was always the most important thing," she says. "It would never have entered in my mind to separate." Still, she admits that, thanks to her children, she's become more accustomed to...