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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
How Children of Divorce Can Turn the Tide
June 3, 2011 Leave a Comment
Written by Lori Lowe Recently, I wrote about how being a child of divorce is a risk factor for early death, as reported in the eye-opening book, The Longevity Project. As a child of divorce myself, I was dismayed to learn that children whose parents divorced during childhood died an average of five years […]
Throwing the Baby Out with the Bath Water: Why Divorce Happens to Good Spouses
May 27, 2011 Leave a Comment
Written by Kevin Senich Their eyes beg answers to questions they don’t want to ask, answers their ears don’t want to hear. A box of Kleenex that truly understands gender equity is always within easy reach. Those sullen with resignation and those animated with indignation are equally inconsolable. They represent a cross section of Americans […]
Confessions of an Unabashed Marriage Saver
May 12, 2011 Leave a Comment
Written by Michele Weiner-Davis I have a confession; I am a psychotherapist who is an unabashed marriage saver. But it wasn’t always that way. When I began doing marital therapy in the late Seventies, I was a newlywed, twenty-something therapist charged with helping couples who were usually older than me and grappling with issues I […]
The Long-Term Effects of Divorce on Children
May 12, 2011 Leave a Comment
Written by Dr. Janice Shaw Crouse In her book, The Unexpected Legacy of Divorce: a 25-year Landmark Study, Judith Wallerstein documents the long-term effects of divorce. Beginning in 1971, she periodically conducted in-depth interviews with 131 children and their parents from the time of divorce. “We’ve seriously underestimated the long-term impact of divorce on children, […]
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