Vietnamese-Americans get over divorce
LOS ANGELES - For years, Mimi Ho endured a long list of demands from an insistent husband and a coterie of in-laws and assorted aunts and uncles.
The Vietnamese immigrant, a nanny who also sells clothes to make a living, felt she was living not in a marriage, but a state of servitude.
"It was, 'Do this, do that, cook and clean and fetch and sew,'" said Ho, 48, of San Jose.
When she longed for escape, phone calls would come from Vietnam, with her mother pleading with her to stay in the union.
It was her youngest sister, Susie - her only American-born sibling - who persuaded her to strike out on her own.
"'Don't you have any self-respect? This is America,'" Ho said her sister told her. "Our parents abandoned everything to come here so they could be free. She
