41.   She herself had dropped out of Boston University years before after running out of money, having been raised by her divorced mother in Cohasset, Mass.

42.   She plays Roberta Guaspari, a divorced mother and musician who settles in Harlem and begins teaching violin to her grade-school students.

43.   Sipp, a divorced mother of two, also has come to terms with the annual holiday tug of war between ex-spouses.

44.   She quickly credits her divorced mother, middle school math teacher Daphne Gray.

45.   Smith, a divorced mother with two grown children and seven grandchildren, races regularly on Lake Huron.

46.   Susan Sarandon plays a divorced mother of two whose ex becomes engaged to the younger, sexier Julia Roberts.

47.   The actor, who was raised by a divorced mother in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, is awkward when the subject is himself.

48.   The change in circumstances is dramatic for this divorced mother who had grown accustomed to struggling to make a living and was completely unknown outside classical piano circles.

49.   The five were acquaintances of Ms. Absalon, a divorced mother of two, and all were drinking at the Casablanca when the attack took place after closing time.

50.   The gay couple among the vignettes has drawn the most headlines, but others like a dating divorced mother are also smartly done.