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Amicable divorce

A new lifestyle

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Traditional marriage viewed divorce as a deviant phenomenon based on the commission of a fault by one partner against the other, leaving the aggrieved partner feeling resentful and the allegedly guilty party feeling guilty. Changing attitudes toward marriage now see divorce as an appropriate consequence of personal growth and change, no longer implying that one partner is at fault. No-fault divorce promotes amicable attitudes between the ex-partners. They may remain friends with one another and with their common old friends and separate new friends and partners. They typically remain coparents, sharing the decisionmaking authority and financial responsibility for their children and providing their children with two alternate homes as equitably as possible.

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  1. Ann Arbor, Michigan

    Robert O. Blood Jr. & Margaret C. Blood

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  1. Robert O. Blood Jr.
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Authors' Note: A revised version of this article was presented at the Multiregional Conference of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, Chicago, May 12–14, 1978.

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Blood, R.O., Blood, M.C. Amicable divorce. J Fam Econ Iss 2, 483–498 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01082681

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