May 2008 Progam on the Culture of Divorce

May's Program was The Culture of Divorce with guests Mary G. Marcus, Ph.D. and Marie Piccarreta.  The panel discussed the effect of movies such as Kramer vs. Kramer, The War of the Roses, and Intolerable Cruety and the change to no fault divorce on children, the public's attitude toward divorce and the divorce rate.

 Mary G. Marcus, Ph.D. has been a Psychologist Mediator for 12 years and has had a private practice of individual, couples and family therapy for 25 years. Dr. Marcus is an Advanced Practitioner Member of the Association for Conflict Resolution,  member of the Arizona Dispute Resolution Association, former President and Member of the Board of Directors of the Connecticut Council for Divorce Mediation, a member of the American Psychological Association and the Connecticut Psychological Association and serves as a Special Master for the Connecticut Superior Court.  Mary Marcus is an Arizona Certified Legal Document Preparer. For more information go to her website at www.center-divorce-mediation.com

Marie Mendelson Piccarreta, of Old Pueblo Mediation Services, is a past chairperson of the Alternative Dispute Resolution Section of the State Bar of Arizona. She is also an Advanced Practitioner Member of the Family Section of the Association for Conflict Resolution, a national organization for professional divorce mediation practitioners which grants membership to mediators who have satisfied its training, experience and educational requirements; as well as a past President of the Mediation Association of Southern Arizona and a founding member of the Board of Directors of the Arizona Dispute Resolution Association.

Ms. Piccarreta has received extensive and ongoing training in dispute resolution techniques and has been specifically trained as a divorce mediator both locally and by nationally recognized mediators. She has successfully mediated family disputes for the last fourteen years, including disputes arising from marital dissolution, property division, child custody, visitation, child support and spousal maintenance. Ms. Piccarreta has served as a Pima County Superior Court Pro-Tem Settlement Judge, as well as a mediator for the Arizona Attorney General's Office, Civil Rights Division, the Tucson Association of Realtors, the State Bar of Arizona and the Tucson Community Mediation Program.  For more information go to her website at http://members.cox.net/oldpueblomediationservices/

You can Watch Divorce TV on Cox Cable channels 98 or 120 or Comcast Cable channels 72 or 73. The channel depends on the day you watch the show. Check the schedule below.

If you aren't on the Cox Communications cable system or Comcast or are away from your cable hookup, you can still see our channels via streaming video over the web online. Determine the channel the program is on that day by checking the schedule below. Go to www.accesstucson.org and click on Watch Online under the caption Now Playing.

(Click on channel you want to watch as listed on your screen below)

Watch Channel 72/120

Watch Channel 73/98

Watch Channel 74/99

You will need a player that can support RealMedia 9 or better video streams, such as RealPlayer.

Date                             Time                       Channel Comcast/Cox