People get divorced… that hasn't changed much… almost as much as they did twenty years ago. What has changed is our attitudes around divorce. No longer carrying the social stigma it did back in our parents and grandparents day, some now even engage in "starter marriages" as they would approach a "starter home". Despite the change in shame around divorce, it still affects families, especially children. Today we'll look at divorce, how it touches people's lives and our changing cultural feelings towards the end of marriage. Laura's guests are Bill Chausse, Vice President of Child and Family Services of New Hampshire. Dr. Julia Lewis, Profressor of Psychology at San Francisco State University and co-author of the book "Unexpected Legacy of Divorce: A 25 Year Landmark Study" and TBA.
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My family is actually in New Hampshire because of a divorce. My grandmother, Katharine, was one of the first people to get divorced in New York. She fell in love with my grandfather, the popular author, Ralph D. Paine, "at first sight" and ran off with him. Such was the nature of the scandal at the time that they were forced to move a number of times until finally settling in Durham at the behest of two of my grandfather's college friends exactly 100 years ago on May 15th.