Betty met Dan Broderick in 1965 at a University of Notre Dame football game. They initially had a happy but hard life, struggling financially whilst Dan was completing his medical degree. Betty fell pregnant early on, ensuring that she had to leave her job as a teacher. After her daughter Kim’s birth, Dan had finished his MD and decided that he wanted to enrol at Harvard Law School.
This put Betty under extreme pressure, as she was juggling being a mother, a wife, and trying to provide for her family whilst her husband was busy studying.
Their success increased as Dan’s law career took off and they consequently moved to San Diego where he was hired at a prominent law firm.
For a while, they lived a luxurious life and were the height of the La Jolla society where they resided. According to an LA Times article in 1990:
‘everybody in La Jolla knew the Brodericks. Daniel T. Broderick III and his wife, Betty, seemed to have a classic society-page marriage. Dan was a celebrity in local legal circles’.
For the first time in their life, they did not have to struggle for money. They were living a high flying lifestyle with their four children.
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