(1) 62.1% were from disrupted families (39.5% divorced, 12.9% remarried, and 9.7% widowed).
(2) During the couple's 30-year marriage she had twice reported him to the police for grabbing her by the throat, before they divorced in 2005.
(3) Of course, every divorce is costly; but muddling through would be even more costly.
(4) In the multivariate logistic analysis the most informative clinical, social, and psychosocial predictors were, in rank order: many admissions to mental hospitals, death or divorce of parent in childhood, heavy smoking, short duration of the mental disorder diagnosed as affective, not married, never economically active, and early onset of the affective disorder.
(5) Last year I became involved with a divorced man 16 years younger than me.
(6) Six hypotheses to explain how divorce may affect the trajectory of child development were tested using standardized measures and sociodemographic data.
(7) The implications of these data for theories of post-divorce adaptation and adult attachment are discussed.
(8) Those with lower knowledge of AIDS were more likely to be separated, divorced or widowed, older, and more personally concerned about AIDS.
(9) It critiques this literature and compares the findings with literature on the effects of separation in father absence related to other causes (for example, divorce, death, military service).
(10) Whether divorce interrupts the savings process or destroys assets, it is unlikely that most individuals will be able to save enough in later life to overcome the loss.
(11) On the programme, the bakes begin to become divorced from their function as food; they become symbols, like the cardboard cakes that were sometimes used at British weddings during the war when shortages ruled out the real thing.
(12) In the latest round of the epic divorce battle between Michelle and Scot Young, the judge, Mr Justice Moor, is making a fresh attempt to discover how much the property dealer is worth.
(13) It remains the case that the economic status of men and women diverge substantially in the years after divorce.
(14) A heavy smoker – “I once quit for four months … but why should I torture myself at my age?” – and outspoken supporter of gay marriage, the divorced and recently remarried father of two collected more than 4,000 signatures from Austrian public figures and celebrities during his presidential campaign.
(15) Getting a divorce really sucks,” she says, adding that she still doesn’t view their nine-year marriage as a failure.
(16) Significant associations were found in the relationship of suicide potential to verbal attack by spouse (p = .03), vacillation in the last two weeks (p = .02), and vacillation since the first serious discussion of divorce (p = .02).
(17) He said some or all of about $100,000 withdrawn from the account was spent on Jackson’s divorce proceedings, court documents show.
(18) The frequency of marriage and divorce did not differ from that of the general population.
(19) Clarification: Jirehouse Capital and Stephen Jones - see Clarification and footnote Jailed British property developer Scot Young, an associate of Russian oligarch Boris Berezovsky, constructed a secret network of offshore companies to hold his assets during a multimillion-pound divorce battle, according to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ's) research.
(20) In the 1970s, Marco Panella’s Radical party was influential in marshalling opposition to the “partitocracy” dominated by the then Christian Democrats and in championing civil rights on issues such as divorce and abortion.
Divorcee
Definition:
(n.) A person divorced.
Example Sentences:
(1) BTTF was largely aimed at kids who didn't know much about their parents' generation (and that was the source of its box office strength), but Peggy Sue was very much seen through the eyes of the disillusioned divorcee, played by Kathleen Turner.
(2) National measures which could contribute to reduction and control of gonorrhoea include effective raising of the age of first marriage and first coitus, as has already been defined by law; the education of all girls up to fifth grade or equivalent; the provision of financial support to prevent widows and divorcees from drifting into prostitution; regular health checks and treatment of prostitutes; and education of men.
(3) Masako Masuoka, an 81-year-old divorcee, is still fit enough to work as a volunteer cleaner and cook for her elderly neighbours.
(4) One married an Anglican and converted to Anglicanism; the other married a divorcee.
(5) The divorcee lives in Bordon, Hampshire, with lorry driver Barrie Williams, 46.
(6) It was a career that made her a star at 12, a bride and a divorcee at 18 and a widow at 26.
(7) Born in South Africa to Zimbabwean parents, Grace was a 20-year-old divorcee when she got a secretarial job in the president's office.
(8) No greater percentage was found in widowers and divorcees, or in those eating in canteens, partaking cold meals during work or drinking alcohol.
(9) It allows teenagers to have their own bedrooms; it allows parents to help older children pick up the pieces if they come home at a time of crisis; it allows the adult child to come home to look after a poorly parent when they come home from hospital; it allows the divorcee to have children to stay; it allows couples to sleep separately if one is ill or recovering from an operation; it allows the younger disabled child to have their own room; and so on."
(10) Within the marital groups, the Capital had higher or the same rates as the Provinces, except for divorcees in the Provinces who had higher rates.
(11) Barely a decade ago the 47-year-old divorcee had moved in with a new girlfriend, drove a Porsche and took lucrative posts in e-commerce where pay deals were sweetened by corporate perks such as free housing.
(12) The data are from age, race, and census tract of residence-matched samples of widows and divorcees interviewed approximately 3 months after the death of or filing for divorce from their spouses.
(13) The royals are presented as a soap opera about dysfunctional divorcees and the garden of Buckingham Palace is a venue for pop groups.
(14) One leading practitioner explained yesterday that the European convention's article 9 would provide ample protection for any cleric who wanted nothing to do with gay weddings, and a decades-old system that allows divorcees to remarry while granting an opt-out to any vicar who would rather not get involved is a practical precedent which has endured.
(15) As a paradigm of the modern self, the set of different-coloured notebooks belonging to the writer (and divorcee, and single parent) Anna Wulf continues to serve the novel's themes of compartmentalisation and breakdown half a century on.
(16) Edward's mistress, the American divorcee Wallis Simpson, was staying with friends in the south of France at the time.
(17) Grief and anger scores are higher for widows and divorcees with social and psychological vulnerabilities and demographic characteristics that have been hypothesized as making them at greater risk for difficulties in adjustment.
(18) This newfound focus on the Commonwealth feels uncomfortably akin to recent divorcees looking up their former partners on Facebook; and being shocked to discover that they have got married, had kids and moved on.
(19) Whereas in the past, a divorcee could leave town and start fresh, nowadays that would require deleting at least one account, and thus be the equivalent of divorcing your entire network.
(20) In concrete terms, speculation centres on whether he will see fit to announce a shift on the treatment of remarried divorcees, now banned from receiving holy communion.