Divorce in the United States         Divorce involves the recognition that a marriage has hopelessly failed and that at least one of the partners has no desire to continue the marital relationship. Divorce legally dissolves a marriage, and permits the partners to remarry if they choose. Divorce differs from an annulment, which declares a marriage invalid because of some flaw in the contract.         The early American settlers brought with them three different views on divorce: 1) the …showed first 75 words of 1330 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1330 total…Divorce Recovery Handbook (1992);         AUTHOR:         Splinter, John P.         TITLE:         The complete divorce recovery handbook : grief, stress,                  guilt, children, co-dependence, self-esteem, dating, remarriage/                  John P. Splinter.         PUBL.:         Grand Rapids, Mich. : Zondervan,         FORMAT:         p. cm.         DATE:         1992 Walzac, Yvette, and Burns, Sheila, Children and Divorce (1984).         AUTHOR:         Teyber, Edward.         TITLE:         Helping children cope with divorce / Edward Teyber.         EDITION:         1st pbk. ed.         PUBL.:         New York : Lexington Books ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan                  Canada;         New York : Maxwell Macmillan International,         FORMAT:         ix, 221 p. ; 24 cm.         DATE:         1994