Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site randvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!oliveb!hplabs!sdcrdcf!randvax!edhall 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 Article-I.D.: randvax.2763 Posted: Tue Oct 29 12:42:20 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 2-Nov-85 05:12:36 EST References: <5211@elsie.UUCP> <11302@rochester.UUCP> Reply-To: edhall@rand-unix.UUCP (Ed Hall) Organization: Rand Corp., Santa Monica Lines: 28 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 decvax!randvax!edhall