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HAPPENINGS

How Young Adults
Feel About Divorce

LYNNE MEREDITH COHN Staff Writer

Photography by GLENN TRIEST AND BILL HANSEN

Iglir Nether they grew up
in divorced homes or
families where their
parents stayed togeth
er, young adults today certainly
have opinions about divorce.
Here's what a few Jewish Detroiters
had to say.

also a product of today's society as
well because men's and women's
roles have changed a lot in the past
years.

Gil Moskowitz,

Gayla Ba.ssitain, 26

"Obviously,
it's not
something
you want to
happen.
Particularly
if there are
children
involved,
the couple
should do
anything
they can to
stay together. But sometimes a
marriage can be good for a long
time and just stop working."

3/6
1998

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Michael Benchetrit, 30
"I've never

been
through it,
nor has any-
body imme-
diately close
to me been
through it. :
But given in
society now
there's a
higher than
55 percent
divorce rate, it does make you
i nk pretty closely when you're
' sidering a more serious rela-
tionship that could lead to mar-
riage. You start thinking about
issues that were probably taken for
granted 20 years ago. It's probably

"It's a large
issue. F.*
think about
it as a sad
issue, not a
happy thing
to do. But if
a situation
arises, then
the divorce .
has to ha

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goes through to what
another one goes
through."

m not
married yet
. I guess
sometimes
people just
drift apart.
Every cou-
ple's differ-
ent, also, so
you can't
really corn -
pare what
one couple

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