lace in America, in part because of a casual acceptance of divorce that was far ahead of its time.
A star, especially a female star, once risked violating the morals clause in her studio contract if she decided to get a divorce. By the 1990s, however, Hollywood divorces have simply become the best-known examples of a national trend. When the movie Stepmom was released in 1998, for example, the fact that Susan Sarandon played a divorcee was almost ignored. Instead, the marketing campaign, critical coverage, and general awareness of the film focused on the problems that remarriage can create when children are involved.
Although divorce is less visible on network television, the lead character in one of the most popular sitcoms on the air is a divorced father. Frasier features a radio psychiatrist struggling with the difficulties of being single again and sharing custody of a son he rarely gets to see. Frasier's divorce indicates how widely accepted the practice has become in the general society. While the de
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