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South Korea’s divorce rate has doubled, fertility rates have fallen to the fourth lowest among advanced economies, and the suicide rate is the highest in the OECD.
Negotiating a complicated divorce and a new relationship with Britain could consume the EU’s political oxygen (especially if, as is quite possible, the UK itself breaks up, with Scotland rejoining Europe).
So leprosy should not be grounds for denying anyone the right to marry, or for divorce; nor should it constitute grounds for separating a child from his or her parents.
In our globalized world, the potential divorce between elections and democracy has assumed a new dimension.
For years I've tried to discover the underpinnings of this homophobia, which remains deeply rooted despite the progressive liberalization of public opinion in most areas of morality: contraception, premarital cohabitation, divorce, single motherhood, women's rights, have all gradually (if grudgingly) been assimilated into the spectrum of "normal" behavior.
It would be unseemly and perhaps “elitist” to point fingers at fellow Americans and imply that they are promiscuous, fat, gluttonous, lazy, uneducated, or that they are more prone to divorce, drunkeness, and gun-related deaths.
The UK’s Multilateral Trade FutureCAMBRIDGE – As the United Kingdom negotiates the terms of its divorce from the European Union, it would be wise for the country’s leaders to begin looking further into the future to determine what approach to international trade relations would serve it best.
The EU has long insisted that a legally binding divorce settlement must be concluded before there can be any discussion of future UK-EU relations.
Where such loosening of the bonds is still not enough, it may be possible in some cases to arrange an amicable divorce, as happened when Czechoslovakia peacefully divided into two sovereign countries in 1993.
This is more women than will “graduate from college, receive a diagnosis of cancer, or file for divorce,” according to the economist Elizabeth Warren .
This leaves them economically vulnerable when divorce or widowhood strikes.
The last three decades also saw the divorce of social policies from overall development strategies as a consequence of the drive for smaller government.
Some say that this divorce has started.
Higher divorce rates and increasing numbers of people living alone influence civic life because, controlling for other factors, single people are less likely to be trusting and less engaged civically than married people.
As long as Charles called the shots in Rome, Henry would not be able to divorce Charles’s aunt, Catherine of Aragon.
It is to recognize that in some places divorce is inevitable, and to ensure that it is as amicable as possible.
As she went through a messy divorce triggered by an unfaithful husband, millions of women shared her pain.
Not so much an iron lady as a stubborn and dogged one, May has begun another round of effort to extract a few further concessions from European leaders to make her divorce agreement more palatable to her party, if not a majority of the public.
So we must hope that May gets her amicable divorce when Parliament finally votes on it in January.
Finally, an exit would force European policymakers to formalize their so-far unwritten and even unspecified rules for divorce.
And the full weight of NATO’s diplomatic efforts would have concentrated on working out a peaceful divorce, just as it has many times dealt with tensions between Greece and Turkey.
A woman’s bargaining power will therefore be influenced by such factors as the type of job she has, her level of earnings and assets, the strength of her family ties, social attitudes toward divorce, laws governing the ensuing division of property, and the effectiveness of anti-discrimination legislation.
I was reminded of these words in the aftermath of the United Kingdom’s “Brexit referendum,” when many in the European Union (though not in Britain) called for a swift divorce.
Moreover, there are several objective reasons why the current friction between Europe and the US is unlikely to lead to divorce.
The third element of today’s information landscape is atomization – the divorce of individual news stories from brand or source.
Marriages break down if divorce (exit) is too easy; but also become unbearable if there is no sense of mutuality and discussion (voice).
Then, last week, Jamal Khashoggi, an exiled Saudi journalist, vanished after entering Saudi Arabia’s consulate in Istanbul to obtain a document confirming his divorce, so that he could marry a Turkish woman the next day.
Putin then decided to disavow his own marriage to Lyudmila Shkrebneva, his wife of 29 years, announcing the divorce in as publicly humiliating a way as possible – his wife was standing by his side – for a reserved Russian woman.
If former French President Nicolas Sarkozy could divorce and remarry a world-famous model and singer while in office, a Russian president can, too.
Or genes that make you gay, religious, prone to divorce, or even genes that determine how you vote?
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