Ocupation: Anthropologist
Life: November 27, 1875 - December 19, 1941
Birthday: November 27
Death: December 19
A society's apprehensiveness about divorce is an expression of its fear of change and of its resulting desire that personality remain unvarying.
source: Elsie Clews Parsons (1997). “Fear and Conventionality”, p.138, University of Chicago Press
topic: Divorce, Expression, Personality, After Divorce, Fear Of Change