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MY AMCONMAG ARTICLE ABOUT THE CULTURE OF FEAR OF DIVORCE<\/span> is online! Like I said, I\u2019m basically happy with how this turned out.<\/p>\n

If America has endured a \u201cdivorce revolution\u201d since California passed no-fault divorce in 1969, we\u2019ve now entered the counterrevolutionary phase. Divorce rates have fallen from their peak in the early \u201980s, the deep pain often felt by children of divorce is openly acknowledged, and young Americans typically express both fear and a moral horror at divorce. They are determined not to repeat the mistakes of previous generations; avoiding divorce is a constant anxiety, even obsession.<\/p>\n

But as with most purely reactionary cultural movements, the revolt against divorce has been much better at targeting what it rejects than figuring out what it\u2019s for. In a strange, sad twist, the divorce counterrevolution has only weakened our marriage culture more.<\/p>\n

Here are three things we\u2019ve ignored as we make divorce (and divorced people) the scapegoat for broader problems of family breakdown.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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MY AMCONMAG ARTICLE ABOUT THE CULTURE OF FEAR OF DIVORCE is online! Like I said, I\u2019m basically happy with how this turned out. If America has endured a \u201cdivorce revolution\u201d since California passed no-fault divorce in 1969, we\u2019ve now entered the counterrevolutionary phase. Divorce rates have fallen from their peak in the early \u201980s, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1071,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nEve Tushnet<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"MY AMCONMAG ARTICLE ABOUT THE CULTURE OF FEAR OF DIVORCE is online! Like I said, I'm basically happy with how this turned out. 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