IN SHORT; PARENTS AND CHILDREN

THE CASE AGAINST DIVORCE. By Diane Medved. (Donald I. Fine, $18.95.) Breaking up ought to be much harder to do, says Diane Medved. Using breathless magazine-style prose, the author, a clinical psychologist, advances a prefeminist ideal of matrimony in ''The Case Against Divorce,''...

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Published inNew York Times Book Review p. 27
Main Author Banks, Ann
Format Book Review
LanguageEnglish
Published New York The New York Times Company 26.11.1989
New York Times Company
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Bombeck, Erma
Book publishing
Children of divorced parents
Divorce
Marriage
Parent-child relations
Parenting
Parents & parenting
Prose
Women
United States
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Summary:THE CASE AGAINST DIVORCE. By Diane Medved. (Donald I. Fine, $18.95.) Breaking up ought to be much harder to do, says Diane Medved. Using breathless magazine-style prose, the author, a clinical psychologist, advances a prefeminist ideal of matrimony in ''The Case Against Divorce,'' an ideal in which women nest and nurture (and sometimes get to have great jobs), are grateful for stability and protection and quit their jobs when their men get too insecure.
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ObjectType-Review-1
SourceType-Magazines-1
ISSN:0028-7806