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From: todd@scirtp.UUCP (Todd Jones)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: "Traditional Values"
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Date: Thu, 24-Oct-85 13:27:38 EDT
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> Why such an emphasis on marriages "staying together"?  If you find a lifetime
> companion, that's amazing etc, but if you actually haven't, but you have a few
> wonderful years, and part, isn't that great too?

That's great if there are no children involved. Divorce between parents
is infinitely messier than divorce between non-parents.

I speak not out of experience, but out of speculation. Corroboration
and dissent encouraged.

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