Boris Becker designer Barbara Feltus. On 18 January 1994, their son Noah Gabriel, named after Becker's friends Yannick Noah and Peter Gabriel, was born. Their second child, Elias Balthasar, was born on 4 September 1999. Before the marriage, they shocked some in Germany by posing nude for the cover of "Stern" in a picture taken by her father. After Becker asked Barbara for a separation in December 2000, she flew to Miami, Florida, with Noah and Elias and filed a divorce petition in Miami-Dade County Court, sidestepping their prenuptial agreement which had entitled her to a single $2.5 million payoff. Barbara left
Howard S. Becker a social construction used to persuade the public to fear and criminalized certain groups. A compilation of early essays on the subject, "Outsiders" outlines Becker's theories of deviance through two deviant groups; marijuana users and dance musicians. In the book, Becker defines deviance as "not a quality of a bad person but the result of someone defining someone’s activity as bad." Becker is widely known for his work on drug culture, particularly his studies on marijuana use. Chapters three and four of "Outsiders," which were originally published in the "American Journal of Sociology" in 1953, examine how marijuana users come