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…the ignition and drove to a friend's house to stay for the evening. My mother called my father from there.         I was down in the basement with the two children of the family, talking to them. I mentioned that my parents might get divorced, but in my…

…Cornelius Cinna in 84 B.C.. In 82 B.C., Caesar was ordered to divorce his wife by Lucius Cornelius Sulla, an enemy of the radicals. Caesar refused and prudently left Rome for military service in Asia and Cilicia. He returned in 78 B.C. when Sulla died…

…, however, knew that Margot went over to Wilson's tent and slept with him. Even with this knowledge, "Margot was too beautiful for Macomber to divorce her and Macomber had too much money for Margot to leave him." Later that morning, Francis Macomber had extreme…

…was also a way to rebel; women who were unhappy in marriages felt that they had the right to divorce their husbands; this act more then doubled between the years of 1914 and 1929. Divorce, once thought to be completely immoral, was becoming quite common. All…

…Code. According to the code, if a man decides to divorce his wife, she is made to go her way, and he goes his. If he does not want to divorce her, he may marry another woman. In turn, he will have two wives. Both will be made to slave in his house…

…. For example, divorces had several set regulations on the ability to remarry. Women would have to wait several months after the divorce in order to relax and determine the paternity of the child if a pregnancy were involved. Finally, the social scale was destroyed…

…to her new parents every morning, do all the chores in the household, have lots of babies (especially boys), and be faithful and obedient. She is her husband's property, he may disown her any time he wishes, and she must avoid this, because a divorced woman…

…ago, I heard that some couple got divorced after their honeymoon. The husband found the wife was not a virgin, so the husband was so mad and divorced her. Even though the husband had sex before he married. this seems extremely strange to me. Why can…

…each other and fade away. Today the amount of divorces per year are at an all time low, because they couldn't communicate or some other reason that brought them apart. A topic that many people are sure to have written about is definetly racism, some took…

…to. Blocking all other valid reasons related to the matter. Also, Oregon's constitution states that all Oregonians are entitled to equal protection under the law. This has been interpreted to mean that gay couples must have the same rights to marriage (and divorce…