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...parent. But by the time her son Pablo was born two years ago, Posse's live-in boyfriend had already moved out. "We were in love, and decided to have a child. Sometimes things don't work out," says the city councilor in Móstoles, southwest of Madrid. "But I would have had a child even if I'd had to go to a sperm bank. My family is Pablo and me, and I don't feel like I'm missing anything...
...Francisco Romo Adanero, a sociologist at Madrid's Catholic University of San Carlos, would respectfully disagree. He worries that the rush to abandon Spain's established ways undermines its future. "There is a terrible hate for tradition," says Romo. "[Spaniards] today are taught that if you're a person of these times you must renounce the past...
...marriage, but has made the country's divorce rate one of the highest in the European Union. For the Catholic Church, the dramatic increase in divorces underlines the threat posed by the Socialist government of Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero. At a December rally in Madrid to "defend the Christian family," Cardinal Augustín García-Gasco lambasted Socialist initiatives, saying, "The culture of radical laicism... leads to nothing but despair along the road of abortion and 'express divorce.'" Benigno Blanco, president of the Spanish Forum for the Family, agrees. "The reform has transformed...
...modern world isn't divided between capitalism and communism; it's divided in part between nations done dealing with their secessionists and those still fighting. Sri Lanka sided with Serbia, mindful of its Tamil rebels. Even Spain opposed Kosovo's claim as a precedent that could threaten Madrid's sovereignty by encouraging separatists. What's the joke about putting all your Basques in one exit...
...Catalans the only regional nationalist movement pressing centuries-old linguistic, ethnic and historical claims on the forward-looking government in Madrid. In the Basque country, also endowed with extensive autonomy in the post-Franco era, separatist political sentiment remains ubiquitous, and terrorist actions by ETA continue...