[Avodah] Children at a Wedding

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From: Micha Berger <micha at aishdas.org>
>>In short, nearly  all of us come from communities where divorce was a
possibility. Which means  that it was possible to have a minhag about
whether children attend their  parents' remarriage.<<






>>>>>
Remarriage was tragically common in Europe,  divorce was rare.  People 
died, parents were widowed, children were  orphaned.   Children did not attend 
their parents'  weddings.
 
My grandfather was married three times (my father's father).  His  first 
wife died in childbirth, his second wife was killed in a pogrom (along  with 
an infant son).  My grandmother was his third wife, and the first  child they 
had together died of hunger during WW I.  This series of  tragedies was all 
too common in Europe.  Quite common enough for an  accepted practice to 
develop regarding children at a parent's wedding.  
 

--Toby  Katz
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