Sentences with phrase «through widowhood»

And yet there are about four million lone fathers in America — through widowhood, or because their ex-wives didn't want to mother, or were too dysfunctional to share parenting.

«I think part of this whole thing is there is a group of people out there that are suddenly single — which we are both members of — and whether you come to it from divorce or you come to it through widowhood, that... sense of having the rug dragged out from under you,» said Vaz - Oxlade, a three - time divorcee.

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Rather, when confronted by the pastoral reality of people who wanted to remarry after widowhood, or after divorce, the Church, recognized civil marriages and focused entirely on the reintegration of the remarried into the Church through prayer and fasting.

He has done so much; he has given employment to so many, construction of dams, electricity, scholarship, widowhood empowerment and adult literacy through Ikeoha foundation.

It follows that there's also been a rise in the amount of older people who've either gone through a divorce or experienced widowhood.

Although many studies have discussed widowhood through death in terms of social support theory and gender differences in marital and social relationships (Levenson, Carstensen, & Gottman, 1993; Lopata, 1978; Ross & Mirowsky, 2002; Umberson et al., 1992), our knowledge of widowhood's relationship to depression is based on studies conducted in western developed societies (Bankoff, 1983; Carr et al., 2000; Stroebe, Stroebe, & Abakoumkin, 1999; van Baarsen, 2002).