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Now, what your friends like on Facebook is in your search results on Bing. Welcome to the Double X Gab Fest for Thursday, July 14th. This is the Broken Homes and Betty Ford edition. I'm Hannah Rosen, editor of Double X. I am here in the Washington, D.C. studio with Kate Julian, also at Double X editor. Hello, Kate. Hello, Hannah. And in New York, I was going to say in D.C., we were joined by Jessica Gross, also a double X editor.

Hi, Jess.

Hi, guys.

Today, we are going to talk about three things.

First, the argument that Generation X is the divorce generation and why that has turned us into helicopter parents.

The second is Jamie Lee Jones, who claimed she was

raped in Iraq and has just lost her rape case in civil court and what that means about the state

of the rape victim today. And third, we are going to talk about Betty Ford, who is the mother

a confessional culture and the end of shamelessness. So the first argument about Generation X and

the Divorce Generation, this comes to us because

of a new book that's coming out called In Spite of Everything, which is a memoir by Susan Gregory

Thomas. And this is a memoir that essentially argues that we Generation X were destroyed by the

height of the divorce era. That's the time in America where there were the most divorces. There was a flowering of divorce and that has permanently traumatized us and turned us into the kind of overprotective parents that we are. And I have lots of thoughts about this. But actually, I'm going to turn it to Kate first because, as Jess and I would say, you are the only one of us who comes from a broken home. Yes, that's great. You intact homers.

Exactly.

I definitely set down to read this book with something like total trepidation as somebody

who's not only a child of divorce, but is married to a child of divorce, which apparently

makes our odds terrible.

If you come from a divorced family, your risk of getting

divorced, I think, is supposed to be 50% higher than yours or Jess's. That's right. And if you're

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