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- Emily Hanford
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- Location: Takoma Park, Maryland
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- "Divorced Kid"
- Summary: America's divorce rate soared in the 1970s. Thirty years later, kids who grew up in the divorce revolution look back at that experience, and describe how it shaped them as adults. The 1970s also offered some lessons on how to improve divorce for kids today.
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Remarkable, must-listen
Emily Hanford
Posted on November 12, 2009 at 12:18 PM
This is a poignant, provocative, deeply meaningful documentary. I highly recommend it, with the warning that it may be difficult for some listeners to hear. It was hard for me. Like Sacha and many, many others of our generation, I am a "divorced kid." And I think like so many "divorced kids," I invested a lot of myself in the idea that divorce was all OK, it didn't really have much of an impact on me. But as I have grown older, I recognize the very deep impact that divorce has had on me and frankly, this documentary woke me up to some of those ways.... I think this is a topic that is under-explored, and Sacha has made a very important program that more people need to hear. This program is definitely a conversation-starter. It would be great to air it with a call-in or interview segment around it. There are lots and lots of questions and emotions to explore. Any producer looking for something good and important to listen to, put this program at the top of your list.