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Divorcing reality
Coontz, Stephanie | November 17, 1997 issue

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The article reports that a new law has come into effect in Louisiana, giving people the chance to choose a "covenant marriage" in which the state will enforce an agreement not to divorce except for adultery, physical or sexual abuse, alcoholism or a year's abandonment. It emphasizes that children suffer the most due to divorce. According to a study on 131 children conducted in 1971, half of them had experienced serious long-term psychological problems that interfered with their love and work lives. An updated data based on twenty-six of these young adults, all of whom had been 2-6 years old when their parents separated has been released.

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DIVORCE -- Law & legislation; DIVORCE; MARRIAGE; CHILDREN; ALCOHOLISM; LOUISIANA; UNITED States
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