Written by John Crouch America’s leading trend-setters now divorce less and later, and treat divorce more as a failure, not a value-neutral or liberating choice, the New York Times’s Pamela Paul writes in “How Divorce Lost Its Groove” (page ST-1, 6/19/11, published online 6/17/11 as “How Divorce Lost Its Cachet”). Paul gives several anecdotal […]
What It Takes to Make It to the Finish Line
June 18, 2011 Leave a Comment
Written by Chris Gersten This week my wife and I celebrated our 44th wedding anniversary. We married at 19. We came from different ethnic, religious, social and-economic backgrounds. If anyone had been taking bets, the odds of our marriage succeeding were less than even. Over forty four years we have had a troubled marriage, […]
Marriage and Divorce in the African American Community
June 17, 2011 Leave a Comment
Written by Nisa Muhammad The African American community has the lowest marriage rate in America and the highest out of wedlock childbirth rate. But on top of these depressing numbers, the Census Bureau figures released last month show that while everyone else’s divorce rate went down, Black women between the ages of 50-59 were […]
We Can Change the Direction of Failing Marriages
June 17, 2011 Leave a Comment
Written by Krsnanandini Devi Dasi & Tariq Saleem Ziyad Imagine you are walking down a long and winding road and your journey is interrupted by a wise and kind old person. She suggests that you take another path and tells you that if you keep walking down the road you currently are on, you […]
Putting Children First
June 15, 2011 Leave a Comment
Written by Linda Chavez For the first time in history, less than half of Americans now live in married-couple households. The new finding by the Census Bureau reflects the most profound change in the nature of American society ever to have occurred, yet practically no one talks about it. Only 48 percent of American […]
“Unfaithful: Stories of Betrayal”
June 13, 2011 Leave a Comment
Written by Mike McManus In recent weeks we have been bombarded with stories of powerful men who think they can cheat on their wives with impunity. Most recently, it’s been Rep. Anthony Weiner unbelievably sending body part pics of himself to women he never met. That on the heels of learning Arnold Schwarzenegger had […]
A “Swing Bang Hum Dinger” of a Divorce
June 13, 2011 Leave a Comment
Written by Dr. Janice Shaw Crouse The former White Stripes rocker, Jack White, and his wife, Karen Elson, a model for Louie Vuitton and vintage clothing store owner, threw a big party in Nashville on June 10 to celebrate their sixth wedding anniversary and the announcement of their divorce. Jack is known for rather […]
Living Together: Myths, Risks & Answers
June 11, 2011 Leave a Comment
Written by Mike McManus To the Presidential candidates, America’s biggest problem is the economy. However, I believe the disintegration of marriage is the nation’s central domestic problem, costing billions of taxpayer dollars for poverty, depression, crime and suicide. This crisis has three elements: 1. The marriage rate has plunged 53 percent since 1970. Of those […]
Standing Up for Marriage and Family
June 5, 2011 Leave a Comment
Written by Beverly Willett Last August, David Patterson, the former Governor of New York, made the biggest mistake of his political career: He signed a bill making New York the 50th and final state to enact no-fault divorce. No matter that New York then had one of the lowest divorce rates in the nation. No matter that for […]
Eleven Year Marriage Ended in 11 Days
June 3, 2011 Leave a Comment
Written by Mike McManus I received a moving note from Jennifer Rivera who got a divorce she did not want: “After being together for 11½ years, the Family Court system of Miami-Dade County was able to legally end it in 11 days.” “If we had more time to wait it out, such as legalized […]
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