From: utzoo!decvax!microsof!uw-beave!furuta
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Title: Re: An alternative to posslq
Article-I.D.: uw-beave.374
Posted: Sun Feb 27 03:05:09 1983
Received: Sun Feb 27 06:31:45 1983
References: watcgl.212

Saturday's Seattle Times carried an article written by Josephine Novak
of the Baltimore Evening Sun titled "Unwed friends invent glossary for
new age."  In this article, Novak reports on a proposal by
Psychologist S. Richard Sauber and attorney Carol Weinstein to define
terms which handle relationships between unmarried couples.  They come
up with a remarkably uneuphonious collection of terms.  To quote from
the newspaper article:
		Here is a part list of basic terminology that Weinstein
	and Sauber feel may be applied in making reference to unmarried
	persons in "union libre":
		Lockage--A committed relationship between a man and a
	woman in which the government is not a party, as it is in
	marriage.  The couple live together and remain together in an
	exclusive relationship as is characteristic of a permanent
	"lock."  A "lock" is a man or woman involved in a lockage.
	Children resulting from the unit are their "lockets."
		Linking--Frequent and regular contact in which there
	in a commitment to be with one another primarily, or as the
	"main person."  The "links" do not live together, but sometimes
	stay at each other's places of residence.
		Linkett is used to describe a child when there is one
	natural parent and the other member of the linkage is not the
	biological parent; i.e., the child of the natural parent and
	the linkett of the "link."
		Children refer to the man or woman who is not their
	natural parent in the linking or locking arrangement as Rex
	(man) or Regi (woman).