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...Kurz does not look at the situation through harsh, cold facts. Instead she views each divorcee on an individual basis. Her sympathetic portrait of the divorced woman's plight confronts the media's assault on the wicked welfare mother who is slowly destroying the American society...
...Kurz arranged interviews from a random sample of divorced women to discover their concerns and situations. She gleans essential information about their vast responsibilities. According to Kurz, women usually have more social and financial responsibilities than the men after the marriage is terminated...
...Kurz's data offers a startling view of the problems faced by these women. Regardless of the women's background--her standard of living and resources--economic, legal and social policies generate an environment which causes the divorced woman's status to decline. In addition, more than fifty percent of divorced fathers refuse to give any amount of child support. These explain the reason why a thirty-seven percent of divorced women's with children live below the official poverty level...
...Kurz's interviews provide a comprehensive human perspective which reveals the socioeconomic and emotional complications of divorce for mothers. Kurz reveals the link between empirical evidence and human experience. The conclusions of her study provide an essential transition from current media debate to the of government for instance, she criticizes family courts' refusal to enforce child support laws. The Family Support Act of 1988 tries to reform the father's negligence by training fathers of children on Aid to Families With Dependent Children (AFDC) so they could gain employment, but funding is low, and even this act refuses to acknowledge...
...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...