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Nevertheless, the worm has already begun to turn again. Last winter, Whitehead expanded her essay into a book, The Divorce Culture, and all hell broke loose. A New York Times reviewer dubbed Whitehead's treatise a "self-blame book" and mocked its scholarship. Esquire magazine ran the bold-face cover line DIVORCE IS GOOD FOR YOU. In the New York Times, essayist Katha Pollitt took on the new Louisiana law that created "covenant marriage," a more binding vow that can be ended only because of extreme circumstances. "You don't have to be abused or betrayed," Pollitt declared, "to have...
...conventional wisdom jells. Take the national debate about divorce. In 1992 Vice President Dan Quayle made his infamous Murphy Brown speech railing against single motherhood and was ridiculed by almost every social observer to the left of Pat Robertson. Less than a year later, social historian Barbara Dafoe Whitehead published an essay in the Atlantic Monthly titled "Dan Quayle Was Right." Citing studies that tracked the development of children raised by single parents, she identified broken families as Public Enemy No. 1, responsible for a generation of sad and angry, underachieving youngsters. In a flash, Whitehead's point of view...
Like adversaries in a divorce court, each side in the public-policy debate has its own roster of expert witnesses and armory of exhibits. Divorce opponents including Gallagher and Whitehead point to the mountain of evidence about the corrosive effects on children. But that research, say their critics, is garbage. "You cannot compare the children of two-parent homes with children of divorce," argues Pollitt. "You have to compare the children of divorce with the children of people in marriages that are dreadful but continuing." She dismisses the list of remedies offered by the antidivorce crowd and is skeptical...
Thompson works part-time in Mass. Hall and part-time as director of the Program on Ethics and the Professions and as Whitehead Professor of Political Philosophy...
Austin Bates scored 21 for Vandy and Drew Maddux had 16. Pax Whitehead, Vandy's leading scorer at 15.8 ppg, was held without a field goal until midway through the second half and finished with eight points...