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World Policy Journal (2007) 24 (2): 39–44.
Published: 01 June 2007
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Published: 01 September 2017
Ohoud, an art director in Jeddah, plays with her daughter in a fort she built for one of her bi-monthly visits. “My parents are divorced. My brother is divorced. My friends are divorced. Everyone I know who married out of love isn’t anymore in love. I got divorced, not once, but twice. After my
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Published: 01 September 2017
My daughter Yara stands in small riverside structure in a Jubail Industrial City park. My daughters tell me, “Mama, I never want to get married. I just want to have kids, like you.” They’ve watched me endure a tiresome 10-year struggle for a divorce, and now have a negative view of marriage. My
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (3): 50–63.
Published: 01 September 2017
...Ohoud, an art director in Jeddah, plays with her daughter in a fort she built for one of her bi-monthly visits. “My parents are divorced. My brother is divorced. My friends are divorced. Everyone I know who married out of love isn’t anymore in love. I got divorced, not once, but twice. After my...
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Published: 01 September 2017
Nassiba, a fashion designer, plays with her son Bilal in their home in Jeddah. After her marriage ended, Nassiba kept sole custody of Bilal, a rarity for divorced mothers in Saudi Arabia. “Society constrains the definition of a divorcee. What you can or can’t do remains under the control of others
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World Policy Journal (2018) 35 (2): 70–74.
Published: 01 June 2018
.... With the help of a cadre of progressive Soviet jurists, Kollontai orchestrated the passage of two decrees: one replacing religious marriage with civil marriage, and another liberalizing divorce. In October 1918, the highest legislative body of the Soviet Union incorporated these decrees into a new family law...
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Published: 01 September 2017
Raneen and Hisham, who pose American Gothic-style in their unfinished swimming pool, were both previously married and divorced. Now married to each other, they realize their mistakes. “We didn’t believe in love, and were too cynical. We also thought of marriage as a duty. After we stopped
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World Policy Journal (2005) 22 (1): 101–102.
Published: 01 March 2005
... Genet and XYZ Affair shook the
the first place. Therefore, this “old couple” very foundations of the fledging U.S. gov
could not possibly be headed for a divorce. ernment and nation. Mr. Genet had the
Instead, a brief account of French-American temerity to challenge President Washing...
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World Policy Journal (2005) 21 (4): 13–18.
Published: 01 December 2005
... point in the history of this old couple,
friendship.” On the other hand, ahead of a America and Europe,” Higonnet ended. “A
meeting with Tony Blair on November 13, divorce, to me, seems to be inevitable. It
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World Policy Journal (2012) 29 (3): 81–88.
Published: 01 September 2012
... softens with concessions; any divorce lawyer will tell you that . At a smoky bar with blood-red walls popular with separatists called Aterpe (Refuge), the middle-aged bartender offers free drinks when the talk turns to selfdetermination, uttering expletives about Madrid. The table of 18-year-olds...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (3): 28–35.
Published: 01 September 2017
... documents concerning pensions and health coverage for all members of the family, including other adult members, are addressed to the setainushi . My informal polls of students have found that only divorced households are headed by women. My own anecdotal experience demonstrated to me how gendered...
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World Policy Journal (2003) 20 (1): 59–67.
Published: 01 March 2003
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prohibited and women gained, among other rigid forms of Islam, this renewed interest
things, the right to initiate divorce and in religion led to the revival of certain cus
take an equal share of marital property, as toms associated with Islam that have ad
well as equal rights to inheritance...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (2): 37–41.
Published: 01 June 2016
... COURTESY OF URVASHI KAUL COURTESY OF URVASHI KAUL KUMASI, Ghana—Agnes Nti, a 49-year-old divorced mother of five and the sole breadwinner for her family, had been selling condiments at the Bantama Market in Kumasi, Ghana’s second largest city, for about a decade. But no matter how hard she worked...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (2): 109–114.
Published: 01 June 2017
... of the organizations controlling AIDS-relief money write about the disease as if it were divorced from sexuality, omitting frank sexual talk in favor of discussing resources, poverty, and education. By not discussing sex, it’s easier for powerful, money-hungry groups to mask their underlying political doctrines...
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World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (4): 10–15.
Published: 01 December 2016
... the many progressive electoral and legal changes that were put in place in Somalia before the war. In 1975, for instance, changes to the family law made men and women equal in the eyes of the legal system and secured matrimonial property for women in the event of a divorce. This law is no longer in use...
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World Policy Journal (2004) 21 (2): 7–26.
Published: 01 June 2004
..., the party dropped any
the status of the Basques, Catalans, and serious opposition to abortion, divorce, or
Galicians. This word, he claimed put “the the system of devolved autonomous gov
very essence and concept of Spain in dan ernments in the regions. Without these
ger.”8 It is no coincidence...
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World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (3): 8–14.
Published: 01 September 2017
..., biogenetic definition of paternity. Promoting the centrality of the father also tends to assume that a two-parent, heteronormative household is the ideal. This conception of family is at odds with contemporary society: In Latin America today, there is growing recognition of same-sex unions and rising divorce...
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World Policy Journal (2015) 32 (1): 21–28.
Published: 01 March 2015
... Ukraine until some arrangement is worked out to provide the Russian-speaking people in the East some autonomy from Kiev. Meanwhile, Putin will continue to use covert action to keep Ukraine weak and divorced from the West. Still, the Russian economy is highly dependent on a robust economic relationship...
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World Policy Journal (2004) 21 (3): 1–14.
Published: 01 September 2004
..., associations, such as those representing
but divorced from its Afghan context it lawyers, doctors, and journalists, and then
would have withered on the vine. Context ceded such control when the state has decid
mattered. ed to crack down. But through all these ups...
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World Policy Journal (2011) 28 (4): 34–41.
Published: 01 December 2011
... of controversy, especially compared to the polemics surrounding the legalization of divorce in 1987. While the church sought to maintain marriage as the union between a woman and a man, the legislation on same-sex marriage was celebrated by most Argentines as a mark of modernity and progress. Nevertheless...
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