In the past, we've heard from a young scientist who became a single mother after a grad school divorce, and about Germany's efforts to establish funding programs to support single-parent scientists.
In 1987, Ellison married Kim Dore, whom he'd met in high school — they divorced in 2012 — and enrolled at the University of Minnesota's law school, where, along with other students of color, he protested against the lack of diversity in the school's faculty and staff.
Maimuna was saved from this fate by Saadatu Aliyu, who has turned an old family home into a school for divorced girls.
Gibbs' parents were both public school teachers and later school principals; they divorced when Gibbs was young and he split his childhood between Gunnison, Colorado and East Lansing, Michigan.
But Philip Avery, assistant headteacher at Bohunt school in Liphook, Hampshire, said he did not believe the design of a school could be divorced from the teaching that goes on in it.
Cecilia is the only child at her school whose parents are divorced, and her school friends were curious about the divorce for a while.
Kenneth and Evelyn were high school sweethearts and divorced this year after 18 years of marriage.
His parents, co-founders of an alternative school and amicably divorced when Pariser was 7, were Vietnam protesters.
She recovered, followed her husband to medical school in Paris, divorced, moved with her second husband to the United States in 1956, had a daughter, divorced again and met her third husband, Manfred Westheimer, on a Catskills ski trip.
Married once, to a high school sweetheart, and divorced since 1974, Mr. Schlink has one son, now 29, a dentist named Jan.
