Abstract
William Goode, who has long characterised divorce as a consumer good, representing an aspect of individual choice which increases with increased affluence, maintains that a high divorce rate as such is not a problem so long as remarriage rates remain high (Goode, forthcoming). There is an old American saying that ‘good women should not be allowed to go to waste’.
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Maclean, M. (1991). Remarriage: the American example. In: Surviving Divorce. Women in Society. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21341-2_5
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