Despite well-wishing friends and sympathetic strangers, Christmas could only be a day of haunting memories for the three women whose lives ... Marie Tippit, widow of the Dallas policeman who ...

However, more than 1 million women enter the growing ranks of the nearly 15 million widows and widowers in America each year. The median age a woman becomes a widow is 59.4 for a first marriage ...

A husband’s death may plunge a woman into a state of widowhood—enforced by cultural, social, or legal bonds—she cannot leave. Widows are cast out. Their possessions, their land, and even ...

With lone-mother families and single older women already particularly vulnerable to poverty, this is an area that needs urgent attention. On International Widows’ Day, 23 June, take a look at ...