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Article #588Re: The Good Wife Guide
From: freeisbest
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 19:30
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 19:30
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Larry Bud wrote:
> > We younger women enthusiastically went for it at first, until many
> > of us slowly began to realize that we were, in fact, undereducated,
> > unemployable, unpaid servants with almost no financial status, and in
> > many states, few property right and sharply limited legal rights.
> > ...And then the Sixties came.
>
> Yep, and unwed mothers and sky rocketing divorce rates followed.
Yes, and those were only a few of the immediate benefits! :)
It is a pure delight to remember that sudden night-and-day change
of social rules. Young women were suddenly free *not* to marry badly,
merely to 'give the baby a name'. Suddenly married women and their
children didn't have to stay in miserable marriages.
It really was, just as they said then, a truly wonderful time of
liberation.
But then, in 1964, came the first truly effective birth control
Over the next few years, the cohort of unwed mothers began to be
composed mainly of the careless, the stupid, and the career breeder.
While I watched, social mores slowly changed again and it has been
years since even they were encouraged to produce children they have no
intention of supporting, and that the society cannot employ.
But we'd better keep an eye on the radical right. They appear to
have a plan for a swift return to the 50s - complete with subservience
of women, nukuler powers poised on the brink of Armageddon, a war every
few years, and all.
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