Divorce Magazine
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Divorce Magazine is a self-help magazine and website that provides information and advice on all areas of separation and divorce, including legal and financial issues, emotional and physical health, parenting and stepparenting, post-divorce relationships and remarriage, mediation and collaborative divorce, divorce resources, divorce in the news, and other topics.
The magazine is based in Toronto, Canada, with separate regional editions for Southern California, Illinois, New York State and New Jersey, Texas and Florida as well as the Greater Toronto Area. The website includes sections for every state and province in North America.
Past contributors to the magazine include Ivana Trump,[1] John Gray,[2] Barbara De Angelis,[3] and Deepak Chopra.[4]
The website, DivorceMagazine.com, features an archive of all past articles as well as information on divorce professionals in the United States and Canada, numerous Frequently Asked Questions, polls, an online forum, a free monthly newsletter, and celebrity-divorce news stories.
[edit] History
The publication was launched as a quarterly magazine in March 1996 by publisher Dan Couvrette and editorial director Diana Shepherd. Shepherd previously was the associate editor for a Canadian wedding magazine called Wedding Bells.[5] The New York and Illinois editions began later that year, and the SoCal edition followed the year after. The Texas and Florida editions were launched in 2003.
The magazine was inspired in part by Couvrette's own divorce. "I needed help. I was embarrassed, confused, and incredibly upset by my divorce," Couvrette has said. "Friends offered support but few answers. I wondered, 'What went wrong?' 'What will happen to my children?' 'Will I ever feel better again?' I was motivated to try and 'figure things out', and I figured I wasn't alone."[6]
At the same time, Shepherd was dating a man who had recently divorced. Both Shepherd and Couvrette found that there were no magazines and relatively few books on the market tackling divorce. "We thought if we needed information," Shepherd said, "other people would too. We started the magazine for people in the same boat as us."[7]
Couvrette has stressed that the purpose of the magazine and website are to help people get through the divorce experience with the least emotional and financial damage. "I'm definitely not encouraging people to get divorced. I encourage people to get help. Talk to your rabbi, your priest, your parents or your therapist; read books, practice meditation, whatever it takes."[8]
Today, the magazine prints all six regional editions semiannually and, as of 2006, had a circulation of approximately 125,000.[9] The current editorial director, Jane Nahirny, claims that the website has received more than 10 million visits since 1996.[10] Around 80% of magazine copies are available for free at the offices of divorce professionals, such as lawyers, accountants, therapists and Certified Divorce Financial Planners.[11]
[edit] References
- ^ Zwecker, Bill, "Ivana's trump? Divorce column that shares all she's learned", Chicago Sun-Times, January 24, 2001. Courtesy link to findarticles version, retrieved on November 6, 2007.
- ^ Gray, John, "Mars and Venus: Ask John Gray", Divorce Magazine. Retrieved November 6, 2007.
- ^ De Angelis, Barbara, "How Did I Get Here?", Divorce Magazine. Retrieved November 6, 2007.
- ^ Chopra, Deepak "Feel Better Now!", Divorce Magazine. Retrieved November 6, 2007.
- ^ Shreve, Jenn, "Dearly Parted", Salon.com, February 13, 1997
- ^ Couvrette, Dan, "In Retrospect", Divorce Magazine, Spring/Summer 2006.
- ^ Cox, Jennifer, "Divorce, for those who've said I don't", Media Life [1], 2001
- ^ Verge, Stephanie, "The Pros", Toronto Life, May 2006.
- ^ Mathieu, Emily, "Celebrating a Decade of Divorce", National Post, October 7, 2006
- ^ Nahirny, Jane, "Ten Years of Helping Generation 'Ex'", Divorce Magazine, Spring/Summer 2006
- ^ Carvajal, Doreen, "For generation 'ex,' a self-help magazine", International Herald Tribune, October 9, 2005
