divorced

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Newly divorced with young children, it caused her to develop chronic sleeplessness, just as she was also going through the menopause.

From BBC • May 1, 2026

I think you gotta be funny if your parents are divorced.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 28, 2026

Children of divorced parents often learn about money through the prism of the breakup—and carry those lessons into adulthood.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 25, 2026

Growing up in Chicago, he says his earliest memory was being three years old, his parents having just divorced, and wandering out of bed to find his mother alone watching “Yellow Submarine.”

From Salon • Apr. 23, 2026

Flora had decided that this was part of the reason her parents had divorced.

From "Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures" by Kate DiCamillo