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Perhaps the most exciting match of the day came at the doubles finals. One of the Crimson's only intact doubles teams from last year, Styperek and Lee, faced off against the Rutgers duo of Jagdale and Schweitzer. The match was fairly normal early on, with both sides trading service games and playing out long rallies...
...Paradise for kids from ruptured families wasn't easily regained. Once cast out of the domestic garden, kids dreamed of getting back in. The result more often than not was frustration and anxiety. Children of divorce suffer depression, learning difficulties and other psychological problems more frequently than those of intact families. Some of Wallerstein's colleagues, not to mention countless divorced parents, felt they were being guilt-tripped by a square. They didn't want to hear this somber news...
...find they have a very long wait. Worse, once they're convinced they've found him, they're often let down. High romantic expectations tend to give way, Wallerstein reports, to bitter disillusionments. Children from broken families tend to marry later, yet divorce more often than those from intact homes...
...that you can't necessarily generalize it to a broad population," Buchanan says. "The other caution I would put forth is that she has a group of divorced families but no comparison group of nondivorced families. [Perhaps in response to this longstanding complaint, Wallerstein also interviewed children of intact marriages for her new book.] There's some good research suggesting that many of the problems that have been attributed to divorce in children were actually present prior to the divorce...
...they mull their next step, the RNC may want to consider a couple of things: First, the candidates each vowed to stick to the high road this year - and while both parties have strayed, on several occasions, from the letter of that promise, the spirit remains, battered but intact. More of this kind of stuff and voters aren't likely to think too kindly of the party (and by extension, the candidate) they perceive as responsible for pushing the campaign irrevocably off that road. Second, with a candidate already proving to be irresistible for the late-night joke writers...