the author's Atlantic Monthly article "Dan Quayle Was Right" ignited a media debate on the effects of divorce that rages still. In this book she expands her arg
While the formal definition of divorce may be concise and straightforward (legal termination of a marital union, dissolving bonds of matrimony between parties),
American family law makes two key assumptions: first, that the civil state possesses sole authority over marriage and divorce; and second, that the civil law ma