Feeling The 50 Year Itch
" ‘Til death do us part" was easier to honor at the turn of the last century, when average life expectancy was only 47, than today, when it is 76. More years to live means more time for couples to grow tired of one another. “My grandparents’ generation, their whole perspective in life was, you get married young, you rear your children–and die. There wasn’t much more to it,” says Kate Vetrano, chair of the American Bar Association’s elder-law committee....