A Circle in the Fire | Compare and Contrast

1950s: In the 1950s, a home led by a single or divorced woman was a relatively new phenomenon, and women’s independence was greeted with mixed messages. “Mrs. Cope” may have had more to cope with than the burden of running a farm.

Today: Men and women are waiting longer to marry and also filing for divorce far more frequently, so adults of both sexes living alone carries less stigma than it once did and presents fewer difficulties. More and more children are raised in single-parent households or households led by adults united in a second marriage. Single women...

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