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From: cffres@uvaee.UUCP (Chuck Ferrara)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: marriage |= (necessarily) commitment
Message-ID: <394@uvaee.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 4-Aug-85 11:52:08 EDT
Article-I.D.: uvaee.394
Posted: Sun Aug  4 11:52:08 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 7-Aug-85 01:25:25 EDT
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Reply-To: cffres@uvaee.UUCP (Chuck Ferrara)
Organization: EE Dept., U of Virginia, Charlottesville
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Summary: 

In article <616@ttidcc.UUCP> regard@ttidcc.UUCP (Adrienne Regard) writes:
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>CHUCK FERRARA
>>>>But, who stays home to raise the kids? Somebody has to do it. Unfortunately,
>>>>this means one partner must give up a career much too often. Children need
>
>BETH KATZ
>>>Who says you must have kids?
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>CHUCK FERRARA
>>I didn't mean to imply that you must have kids. It's just one of many
>>hypothetical situations that confronts married couples much more often
>>than "live ins".
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>Adrienne Regard:
>
>Just why is this a situation that confronts married couples more often than
>"live ins"?  
>
Wouldn't it be safe to assume that most people who have children do so
after they're married (barring accidents)? It would then follow that a 
lot of (but not all) decisions on how they are to be raised would be 
discussed after marriage, because it is impossible to consider everything 
beforehand.

>Surely we don't suppose that it is the marriage that creates
>the kids, (or living in the cabbage patch).

Of course not, everybody knows that the stork brings them.