Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!laura From: laura@utzoo.UUCP (Laura Creighton) Newsgroups: can.politics Subject: Re: Universal social programs Message-ID: <4863@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Fri, 4-Jan-85 11:34:11 EST Article-I.D.: utzoo.4863 Posted: Fri Jan 4 11:34:11 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 4-Jan-85 11:34:11 EST References:<1299@dciem.UUCP> <907@ubc-cs.UUCP> <4839@utzoo.UUCP>, <264@lsuc.UUCP> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 12 Re: the women who need their paychecks because their husbands are louses... Is it really in our interests to make such horrible marriages in some way more tolerable for the mistreated women, or is it preferable to make such situations less tolerable? It depends on whether you think there is something worth preserving in such relationships -- many would rather increase the divorce rate to get such women away from such situations, but the difficulty is that the woman is likely to have to make the first step in this direction. Laura Creighton utzoo!laura