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From: The Washington Post
Date: 19881214
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From "Changing Family Patterns in the United States," a report by the American Psychiatric Association:

Samuel Johnson described remarriage as "the triumph of hope over experience." We would expect remarriages to be more durable than first marriages both because of experience and simply because the partners are older, on average. However, another factor complicates the issue. Since most remarrieds have been divorced, they represent a population statistically more prone to be divorced than average. Some proportion of first-marrieds are unable or unwilling to be divorced no matter how bad ...

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