Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!genrad!decvax!harpo!floyd!whuxlb!pyuxll!eisx!npoiv!npois!hogpc!houxm!ihnp4!ihuxm!prgclb From: prgclb@ihuxm.UUCP Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: Divorce and Middle Aged Women Message-ID: <312@ihuxm.UUCP> Date: Thu, 30-Jun-83 17:09:05 EDT Article-I.D.: ihuxm.312 Posted: Thu Jun 30 17:09:05 1983 Date-Received: Fri, 1-Jul-83 20:08:07 EDT Lines: 28 Pat Fargo presented some interesting ideas as to why a few "middle-age" couples he knows are getting divorced. Let me add a speculation or two from a few divorces I've been witnessing. It seems that these women and men were married when the old value system was in force -- i.e. men, get a job, make lots of money, climb the corporate ladder, and expect your loving wife to stay home keeping up your house and raising your kids. Women -- make a good home for your husband and raise your kids. Now we have a new set of values -- women, excel to your potential, consider the entire workplace fair game, take on that corporate ladder. Men -- take a *real* share in keeping up the home and raising the kids. Now -- among the age 40 - 50 couples I've seen, the women are buying in to the new values, but their husbands aren't. Result -- friction. Older couples are still doing fine with the old values. Both partners among younger couples are buying in to the new values together. But that middle-aged group, . . .? Again -- just speculation, not documented fact . . . Carl Blesch Bell Labs - Naperville, Ill. IH 2A-159, (312) 979-3360 ihuxm!prgclb