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From: arnold@ucsfcgl.UUCP (Ken Arnold%CGL)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Name Changes ("traditions that have evolved" disappearing)
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Date: Mon, 7-Oct-85 17:22:03 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct  7 17:22:03 1985
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In article <12089@rochester.UUCP> ray@rochester.UUCP (Ray Frank) writes:
>
>The divorce rate has dramatically increased since the late fourties, are you
>suggesting that women died young in the fourties and fifties?  Are you
>suggesting that the longevity curve has dramatically incraeased since the
>fourties?  The fifty percent divorce rate today cannot possibly be attributed
>to longevity as you suggest, it is just mathematically impossible.
>In effect you are blamming mother nature for the divorce rate, and nothing
>else. 

Of course not.  Any social institution takes some time to adapt,
especially one as entrenched as marriage.  Please sit back and think
a little before responding.  I hate typing things as obvious as that.

>If you are talking about a hundred or a thousand years ago, then you might
>be correct, the life expectancy was around 40 then, but 40 years ago, the
>life expectancy was about 70.

Thank you.  I was, indeed, talking about a hundred years ago.  I stated
this explicitly in my first article.  Do I have to repeat myself each
time?

Oh, and by the way, divorce became common in the upper classes before
it moved into the middle and lower classes.  Also, it was the upper
classes who were able to afford what life-prolonging health care did
exist.  For the less affluent, life-prolonging health care didn't
arrive until 30 to 50 years ago.  And, lo and behold, divorce as a
common thing came only 20 to 10 years ago.  So there is a visible lag,
possibly correlative, between the arrival of health care for a class of
people and the acceptance of divorce.

		Ken Arnold