Re: OT:Thanksgiving

On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 11:26:19 -0700, Howard Brazee <howard@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 16:44:06 GMT, spambait@xxxxxxxxxx (Doug Miller)
wrote:

Doesn't it make you wonder why they did not institutionalise
enslavement of their womenfolk? Oh, they did, it's called marriage.

This view of marriage is peculiar, to say the least. I very much doubt that
*my* wife feels in the least enslaved; if yours does, that says much more
about you than it says about the institution of marriage.

Our generation didn't institutionalize marriage, and institutions
change over time, often so that they are difficult to recognize from
the people who created the institutions.

Fact: more than half US families are "living in sin", i.e. cohabiting without benefit of
formal marriage.

http://www.ur.umich.edu/9900/Feb14_00/6.htm

It's quite a shock to the middle class, who think marriage is the norm.
.

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