divorce
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Prosser’s son, who has two children, has been absent for the death of his great-grandfather, his sister’s divorce and his brother’s health problems during the Ford’s current deployment, his father said.
After her parents' divorce, she is said to have brought up her own siblings.
From BBC
In one scene we see Shahverdi take into her home - with parental permission -Fereshteh, a teenager seeking a divorce from her husband whom she married at 12.
From BBC
Anna Murdoch was appointed to the News Corp board in 1990 and remained on it until October 1998, a few months after she filed for divorce from Rupert Murdoch.
“We Don’t Talk” appears to address her estrangement from her older sister, Haylie, while “Weather for Tennis” describes her tendency to keep the peace as a child of divorce.
From Los Angeles Times
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