Children are torn apart when their parents get a divorce. ... When we got married, his two younger daughters were only seven and five years old. ... Once a couple gets married, it's a lifelong commitment and it should work because married couples tend to solve their differences instead of giving up. Why do people get married and when things don't go their way their first solution is divorce? ... Married life is a commitment between a man and a woman and couples should stand to their promise to stay married and love, honor, trust, care, and be loyal to each other. ...

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This way she gets the best of the both world. ... A part-time job allows mothers to basically get the best of both worlds. ... This way, the family stays happy and financially sound, while at the same time, the mother doesn't get too unsatisfied with her life while taking care of the kids all at once. ...

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The more one gets the more one wants. ... "She married for love, and the love turned to dust. ... One can get caught up with society, and succumb to it. ... "I can't be, if I married an unlucky husband." ... "I use to think I was, before I married. ...

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Cause and Effect of Divorce Most people believe that the main reason people get divorced is because of deterioration of the family structure. ... People think since the woman is getting money because of child custody, she would be well off and on top of receiving money she is working so therefore there should not be any financial problems. ... The decline is especially severe for women who have children, women who were married to upper middle-class men, and long-married women. ... After divorce, women who are married to upper-middle class men have hard times finding a job because, dur...

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Their parents were more than happy to see them married at a very early age. ... Then came the day I got married. It is not a surprise I married so young. ... The parents are not getting involved and are not encouraging their children. ... Only enough to get most of them by. ...

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The oldest one, Dee, sees life as adventure, a place to learn and go out and get what you want. ... Zizi is the father in this story and he is determined to get married just so his son will have a mother. ... Dee on the other hand wanted to get out of that house as soon as she could. ... When her and her husband got married they would use them everyday. ... After unsuccessfully trying to get him to do the job they would just get something easier for him to do and do the job themselves. ...

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Couples who are expecting a child and they aren't married are they not to be considered as a family. ... They had me and they weren't married. They married a little while after I was born. ... I picked my dad, because I knew I could get away with a lot of things. ... I notice my parents getting back closer, and before anyone could say anything they were back together. ...

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She married a man who had a son with a disease. ... She married a man who had adopted this child and in marrying him she adopted him too. ... She goes on to explain how when she got married and ultimately adopted the children, the judge announced it was final. ... So the kids get attached to you, because you're the one who's always there. Then the parents get angry-(Cheever 158-159). ...

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They would get off the train when it would stop and look through trash bins for food. ... Days passed, and they still were set on getting some where. ... They were expected to go out an get a job and better themselves. ...

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This is where all the girls from the bride's family get together and performs a ritual event in which creme or paste type substance is applied to the bride's arms and legs. ... Sometime during this night, the bride's sisters and brothers take the grooms shoes and in order for him to get his shoes back, he must give them money. ... In America, people get married because of love. In Pakistan people get married to carry on the family and its traditions. ...

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You might get hurt because of that, Dear Why don't you try to be a teacher instead?" ... Since they know that they will get a baby boy, they start to paint the baby room with blue color and, later, buy "masculine" type of toys such as robots, car toys, gun toys, etc. ... Parents also read classic fairy tales to their children which imply the idea that all a princess has to do to be saved and get away from her problems is just waits for her Prince Charming. ... If a married woman goes out and comes back at midnight, the public would think that she is a bad woman who does illicit things. N...

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Where once there was love, now lays resentment and an unwillingness to get along. ... Because he assumed everyone to be playing their prescribed roles: Edna as a loving faithful wife/mother and Robert as a young Creole man patronizing an older married woman. ... Since Edna is already married with children of her own, she is assumed to have a "role-model" in Madame Ratignolle. However, she also gets along with Mademoiselle Reisz, and she finds herself having things in common with her as well. ... A common role of the young Creole man is to "fall in love with" an older married woman, only c...

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After lunch, this young girl would go to the rubbish dump to collect recyclable items to get extra money. ... She was only nineteen when she got married. When she got married, she thought that her sorrows and nightmares would finally be over and she would be able to pursue what she had always longed for, education. ... Life is not just getting married and living happily ever after. ...

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I started getting aggressive at times, I felt guilt of the situation even though it wasn't my fault. ... He helped my mother get a job and get me into a very good school. ... My parents had decided, after being divorced for ten years that they were going to give it another try and get married once again. ... After all this years, you get used to your new and different life, but getting your family back together is a lot better. My father only moved back in with us after they got married again. ...

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When Dolores starts to get her life back together she meets Dante. ... Eventually Dante came back to her and told her he didn't want children and persuaded her to get an abortion. ... After the abortion Dante purposed to Dolores and they got married, one day, Dolores got so fed up with Dante she told him everything. ... When she was much older and married to Dante, her grandma passed away. ... When she meets Dante, he persuades her to get an abortion and she knows that she has to decide between Dante, her boyfriend, and her unborn baby girl. ...

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Lindo realized that this is not the kind of life that she wanted and she gets a rail ticket to Shanghai. ... Waverly wanted to please her mother and she even married a Chinese Man. ... In China Ying- Ying was married to a bad man who was what she dreamed for, but ended up to be very bad. ... But it is hard to get out of a marriage especially when there is a son involved. ...

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" Instead of actually leaving his family, Tom uses the movies, his poetry and alcohol as another form of escape from the suffocating feeling he gets from Amanda. ... At anytime Tom can just get up and abandon his family like his father and can finally have the adventure he's always desired, but regardless of the tension between him and his family, at the end of the day they care for each other. ... Without a guy to sweep her off her feet or at least a steady career, there is no escape for her from her family, but we don't actually get to see any desire to escape from Laura. ......

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" Sarah works part-time about two days a week and states, "My job doesn't provide much income, but it gets me out of the house for a while, and I make a little spending money.... Sarah stated, "I feel like we've been parents almost the whole time we've been married. ... The babies get checkups, but after you reach a certain age, you just go if you really need to....

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The Power of a Mother's Love In the story "Red Mocassins" by Susan Power, she tries to get her readers to feel a certain way about specific characters in her story. ... Joyce had been married for several years by that time and was already a mother, but she was jealous"(412). Instead of rejoicing in her cousin's new love and happiness, she says things like "People will say you"re greedy"(413), or "They say you"re marrying him to get things" (413). ... When Anna's son is dying, and Joyce shows up to get Dina's costume, Anna begs Joyce to fetch the doctor. ... Joyce did n...

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One day he found out that his high school sweetheart was pregnant, he then got married to her during the summer after their senior year in high school, and the two moved together from Boise, Idaho, to Cambridge, Mass where their son was born. ... Once he gets back to his apartment he reads a letter that was attached with the baby. It's basically telling him from the baby mama to him that she wasn't able to take care of the baby, Emma, and that she just needs some time to get things straight before she comes back. ... Don't get me wrong, the mother and child should be focused on,...

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He would have gotten them earlier when the law was that if you were in the U.S. in 1982 you could file for the papers but at that time he went back to Mexico to get married to my mom. ... There was people that had tried and couldn't get them so my mom thought that she wouldn't be able to get them either. ... In that time it as really hard to get papers. ... They had no problem getting through immigration and naturalization checks. ... He knew people here that would help him get through the changes. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

A few months after I turned 14 I heard the horrifying news that my parents were going to get divorced. ... My father would get drunk and then him and my mother would fight. ... It was beginning to get harder for me having a secret that no one seemed to notice. ... She ran off to get the car seat and the baby's bag while I gathered my things. ... The baby was getting cleaned up and I was getting stitches when my mom told me that I did very good. ...

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Those contacts and connections are very important because people can not get them at home (Barnett, and Rivers, The Myth 185). ... That was one of the reasons why women were not getting high wages, good training, sponsoring for a career as men did. It was assumed that women (especially married) were not committed to their job (Rosenberg). ... Moreover, if eventually woman succeeds to get a well-paid job with an opportunity of good training and promotion it does not mean that she will get the same rewards as men (Rosenberg). ... Females are getting low-paid positions without opportunities to...

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Couples get married to soon, not realizing all of the stress and commitments that are involved. Therefore couples get a divorce after a short time, because they didn't really know each other. ... Also, the odds increase of children of a divorced family getting a divorce when they are older. ... According to sociologist Lenore Weitzman, divorced women get by on about 64% of the income they had during marriage. ... At this point a girl may decide to get pregnant and bear a child. ...

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"We decided to have a baby before we got married" both parents said at one voice. ... Wednesday May 31, 2001 and no one wanted to help her and Dr Jerk one said just go home and get some rest but Judy couldn't do it she was too tired. ... Thursday at noon Judy was getting a sleep twenty minutes of sleep 7 hours. ... Mark was very emotional and he took Philippa in his hands and was holding her while Judy was getting cleaned up and getting stitches. ... Second semester was your body was getting use to all this, and third semester was all about worries if we will be a good parents" Judy s...

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• Grade Level: High School