Clinging to the Child. While many marriages may linger for years because of children, the final breakup imposes strict requirements on the husbands. He must pay, according to conventional formulas most times, from 1/3 to 2/3 of his current income for both alimony and child support. In such settlements, the visiting hours and responsibilities of both parties in relation to the child are carefully spelled out. Shown here, the child becomes the center of the divorced couple's remaining contact, a symbolic reminder of the past too many fathers try to cling to from their own desperation and lonliness.

Associated Press · [ca. December 1967]

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