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From: edhall@randvax.UUCP (Ed Hall)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: The Increasing Divorce Rate, and The Future
Message-ID: <2763@randvax.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 29-Oct-85 12:42:20 EST
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Posted: Tue Oct 29 12:42:20 1985
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Reply-To: edhall@rand-unix.UUCP (Ed Hall)
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Summary: 

In article <12490@rochester.UUCP> ray@rochester.UUCP (Ray Frank) writes:
>> > There has been a lot of back-and-forth about the fact that the divorce
>> > rate has increased greatly in the past few decades.  Ray Frank blames
>> > the liberation of women and the discarding of ``traditional values'' as
>> > the cause of this.  I agree, 100%.  The increasing life-span is only a
>> > minor factor in comparison, at least in recent decades.  [ED HALL]
>> 
>I don't remember ever mentioning women's lib in any of my postings concerning
>the question of the rising divorce rate.  Parhaps the author of the above
>posting feels that way, but I have never indicated in my postings dealing with
>divorce rates that women's lib was causing the problem.  I have also never
>mentioned that I believe women's lib was not causing the problem.  In other
>words, I simply never brought up that issue.  
>

I've not monitored all your postings, so I'll take your word for it--
at least in the narrow sense.  Nonetheless, you've been discussing
the changes from traditional sex roles that have been a part of the
women's liberation movement, and so in the broad sense what you've
written has a lot to do with it.

Also, like it or not, posting in net.women assumes that you are talking
about feminism and sexism.  I'm sure you (and everybody else :-) )
realize this.  (This isn't the group to report a byte order problem
in sendmail frozen configuration files.)

		-Ed Hall
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