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…of concubinage and easy divorce. At First, the church tried to restrict divorce by limiting it for the most part to two cases: the flagrant adultery of the wife or the impotence of the husband (Spielvogel, 215). The church eventually retained the right…

…to possess men but never be possessed. Without thinking of the consequences on her family, Edna decides to move to a small house to live alone. She makes this move with divorce and Robert on her mind and with little regard to the effect it will have on her…

…-term effects. Deprivation can occur as a result of divorce, death or illness, and the important feature is that an attachment was formed, but it was broken. Rutter suggested that it was the reason behind deprivation rather than deprivation itself…

…punish, banish, denounce, divorce, and execute her if he so chose. Take the case of Egnatius Metellus, for example. According to Valerius Maxumus, a writer of the first century AD, this upright old Roman took a club and beat his wife to death because she had…

…institution of marriage against a backdrop of marital choice through the centuries may shed some light on today's high divorce rate. If romantic love is a luxury that earlier generations could scarcely afford to link with marriage, it also may be the undoing…

…usually address the problem first. The village elders may join the attempt to resolve the conflict as well. However, divorce may occur and may be initiated by either party. After a divorce, both husband and wife may return to their families. The children…

…rights lawyer, Ms. Hina Jilani, sister of another well-known human rights activist and Supreme Court advocate, Ms. Asma Jahangir, chairperson of the National Human Rights Commission of Pakistan. Samia had been trying to get a divorce from her husband, Dr…

…twenty-five years in the marital woes of their clients. They reported that one of the first changes was the fact that more men were seeking divorces instead of women. The reason why is because the women were leaving the men. Unlike the traditional reason…

…arrange for someone else to impregnate the woman. The child that is then born is considered his own (p.197). The government has outlawed polygamy but it still occurs, although most men can afford only one wife. Divorce, however, is quite common. A man can…

…that a virgin woman who had been raped must marry her attacker, no matter what her feelings were towards the rapist (22:28-29). Along with marriage went divorce. In Deuteronomy it described the procedure for obtaining a divorce. This could only be initiated…