Word: divorcee
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Helen, an older girl, is there to share her experience with divorce. She is a member of a group-three years old and mostly girls, so far-at Lexington Senior High1 School. There are many services for divorced parents now, but so far only some two dozen such groups throughout...
When the talk gets too difficult, they protect themselves by glazing over. No one picks it up when Simone says, "My mom keeps telling me to go ahead and live with my father. She couldn't insult me more." When a new girl explains that she learned of "her...
The long divorced Paul wonders if anyone knows what causes divorce. They all do. Lorraine says, "The whole purpose in life for our mothers, even going to college, was to be married. I couldn't imagine getting married so soon." She demands to know why you should get married...
But, presses Lorraine, "how could you ever live with someone for 20, 30, 50 years? How boring. How dull." Paul adds: "Like being in a cage." Yet not one of the Divorced Kids seems to agree with something that Helen said during her visit with the elementary school children: that...
Cooke's divestiture came at the end of three bitter years of exile from the teams he once ran with the glee of a small boy on Christmas morning. He fled to Nevada in a vain attempt to escape California's community property laws during an acrimonious divorce...