From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!npois!cbosgd!nscs!rmas70!cly
Newsgroups: net.singles
Title: is there life after marriage
Article-I.D.: rmas70.215
Posted: Tue Oct 12 15:09:41 1982
Received: Sun Oct 17 05:13:41 1982

Here is an article I came across. (I don't know where
it came from so I can't give the publishing credit.)
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		IS THERE LIFE AFTER MARRIAGE?
	by Lionel Tiger
 
Many people are married to people who have been married to people
who have been married to other people who are now married to still
others to whom the first parties may not have been married, but to 
whom somebody has likely been married. Our society, once based on
the principle of solid monogamy until death do us part, has shifted
toward a pattern of serial polygamy, in which people experience more
than one spouse, if only one at a time. Thus we appear to be moving
to a new and imprecise system we might call omnigamy, in which each
will be married to all.

People keep marrying, even though happy marriages are regarded as
surprising and much-envied occurances.
 
Various responsible estimators expect that from a third to a half
of the marriages formed in this decade will end in divorce
sometime. It is also astonishing that, under the circumstances,
marriage is still legally allowed. If nearly half of anything
else ended so disastrously, the government would surely ban it
immediately. If half the tacos served in restaurants caused
dysentery, if half the people learning karate broke their palms,
if only six percent of people who went on roller-coasters
damaged their middle ears, the public would be clamoring for
action. Yet the most intimate of disasters - with consequences
that may last a lifetime for both adults and children - happens
over and over again.

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Lionel Tiger???

Carl Yaffey BTL CB 1-614-860-3399  or 8-353-3399
Room 1B311
6200 E. Broad St.
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