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- Title
"The Product of a Spoiled America": Divorce as Collective Crisis in U.S. Popular Culture of the 1990s.
- Authors
Thierbach-McLean, Olga
- Abstract
[5] As a result, the number of divorces in the U.S. soared to a historic high in 1980: From 1960 to 1980, the divorce rate more than doubled - from 9.2 divorces per 1,000 married women to 22.6 divorces per 1,000 married women. With this in mind and based on the theoretical framework of sociological research on generational shifts, I specifically examine the '90s upsurge in divorce-themed art as a distinct cultural product of the latchkey generation. 10 However, while divorce rates are decreasing as "the most divorce-prone cohort, those born in the Baby Boom, [age] out of their peak divorce years" (P. N. Cohen 1), this drop is also due to the fact that younger cohorts are less likely to get married in the first place. And that is exactly what happened in the 1990s, when a generation engrossed in the private agony over the emotional wounds of divorce all but failed to appreciate that politically their youth coincided with a time that would be the envy of succeeding age cohorts.
- Subjects
DIVORCE; POPULAR culture; QUALITY of life; PSYCHOLOGICAL factors; MARRIAGE; SOCIAL conflict; DESPAIR
- Publication
IJAS Online, 2020, Issue 10, pN.PAG
- ISSN
2009-2377
- Publication type
Article