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From: ray@rochester.UUCP (Ray Frank)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Name Changes
Message-ID: <11580@rochester.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 12-Sep-85 11:20:38 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 12 11:20:38 1985
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> > > You have a 50 50 chance of winding up divorced.  Those are the 
> > >statistics, like it or not.
> 
> This was in answer to a woman who decided to keep her maiden name. 
> (That's such a quaint, old-fashioned term. It probably offends a lot of
> people out there too.) 
> 
> It's true, you can use statistics to prove anything. Last I heard, the
> divorce rate was 50%. That seems to suggest that if a woman decides to 
> keep her maiden name she is not taking any chance at all.
> 
> Did someone *really* say that? I predict a bright future with the National
> Enquirer. I further predict that this will be one of the stories:
> 
Yes, you.  Open mouth, insert foot.