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Divorce Culture

Robert talks with social historian Barbara Dafoe Whitehead about divorce. Whitehead says that the structure of the American family has eroded substantially in recent years, and that divorce has become seen as a right that American adults have. It strains the bonds between children and parents...especially children and fathers...and has made way for a new conception of the components of family life.

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