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…as the 1940's the divorce rates have been up and down. It is now said that 40 percent of all marriges end up in divorce compared to the 50 percent in the late 70's and early 80's. In know that I am one of those statistics, except I am one of the 40 percent…

…wants to divorce Medea and marry the princess of Corinth, casting Medea aside as if they had never been married. This sort of activity was acceptable by Greek standards, and shows the subordinate status of the woman, who had no say in any matter like…

…It is known that one out of two marriages will end in divorce. According to Dr. Harley, in "Living together before Marriage", eighty-five percent of the divorced couples were cohabitating before marriage, otherwise known as: living together…

…family pattern often emerges in which mothers and daughters retain lifelong bonds while men become somewhat marginalized. In many developing nation societies divorce remains hard for working-class couples to obtain, but consensual unions and informal…

…law, wives are now equal rather than subordinate partners; interracial marriage is now widely accepted, both in statute and in society; and marital failure itself, rather than the fault of one partner, may be grounds for a divorce. Societal change has been…

…that marriage would be good for them. He was right, and in 1920 they were divorced. Charlie later wrote in his biography, “The real tragedy in his marriage is not that it failed, the real tragedy was that it ended the romantic relationship with Edna.” Edna…

…, the Family of Dolls, which contained four members in it: Dad, Mom, Sis, and Junior, and the facts of our time: “divorce, remarriage, single parenthood, gay parents, and blended families.”(140) Today’s mothers prefer to be employed and more independent. Sometimes…

…VIII seeks a divorce from his queen, Catherine of Aragon. Zinneman recreates renaissance politics while giving viewers interesting character developments in the persons of Thomas More, King Henry, More's wife, daughter, son-in-law, and Cromwell. The cast…

…." (210) Chinese culture effected the start, but also dictated the end. Had Weili come from a different culture, she would not have thought twice about divorcing her husband. Divorce was an unthinkable alternative in China during the early twentieth century…

…that by the 5th day of life, breastfeeding infants can discriminate their mother’s own breast pad from the breast pads of other mothers with significant reliability (Macfarlene 63). According to Claire Berman in her book Adult Children of Divorce Speaks Out…