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Word: divorzio (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Under the bill, divorce would be permitted for such specific reasons as insanity, long-term imprisonment, incest, or if a couple has been separated for five years. This last provision, known already as the "piccolo divorzio" or "little divorce," would aid as many as 1,600,000 Italians estimated to be living in marital sin. It would directly benefit the 500,000 "white widows," whose husbands left Italy to work, then got divorced and remarried abroad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Italy: Closer to Divorce | 12/5/1969 | See Source »

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