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To: epicure who wrote (23238)	7/5/1998 11:15:00 AM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

X, I understand your point about there being other important influences on children aside from birth order. All the children in a family that is divorcing are changed forever, and many would say, irreparably damaged. I guess I will have to buy the psychologist's book to see how he covers that! ;^) Divorce seems to be fairly rare in San Francisco, in families with children. Out of the sixty children in my daughter's class, only two couples separated in nine years. Of course, it is so expensive to live in San Francisco that the divorce rate may be a little lower because the financial consequences for split-apart families are so devastating. Who wants to live in a one bedroom apartment in someone's garage with two children, and work two jobs to pay the rent? And we are mostly an Asian city now, and the Asian divorce rate seems pretty low. Do you see a lot of divorces out in your suburban community, or have you noticed any decline? I am thinking back to the eighties, and remember that divorce was taken much more lightly. Maybe we know more about the damage it does to children now. There is also a movement in the therapeutic community to lower expectations of marriage. In the eighties, I remember people divorcing for very frivolous reasons.