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October 3, 2008 |
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Description: With the divorce rate hovering at 50% in this country, many adults choose to remarry, with their children in tow. In this hour we discuss the impact of divorces and remarriage on the children. Ten years after her divorce, Wendy Swallow, The Triumph of Love Over Experience: A Memoir of Remarriage, had become comfortable in her life as an independent single mother. Then Charlie, a divorced father came along and the two decided to marry. She discusses the challenges and triumphs of remarriage, and creating a new blended family. Elizabeth Marquardt, Between Two Worlds: The Inner Lives of Children of Divorce conducted a study of the adult children of divorced parents. She takes an in-depth look at how divorce re-shapes children's lives and the fallacy of the "good divorce."
"I suddenly realized, when they're both sitting there at the kitchen table crying that, basically the other shoe had dropped. That, the first shoe was the divorce ten years earlier and the second shoe was this (her remarriage). And I had no idea it was going to have that power."
- Wendy Swallow
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