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- From: quirke_a@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz
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- Subject: Re: Duck and Jive (was Re: Pre-Sex Contract)
- Date: 22 Jan 93 12:36:17 NZST
- Organization: Welligton City Council, Public Access.
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- gcf@panix.com (Gordon Fitch) writes:
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- : You will quickly find
- : that there are really very few welfare queens (mothers with a
- : lot of kids permanently on welfare). You will also find that
- : raising children is a lot of work. Women with access to
- : contraception and abortion almost never have large numbers of
- : children; those who do are almost always in a patriarchal
- : situation -- e.g. various fundamentalist religious types who
- : believe that it's the Godly thing to do. Such women receive
- : strong support from their families and their communities.
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- I recommend Germaine Greer's "Sex and Destiny" for reading up on
- why women in industrialised countries may be having fewer children
- (And the consequences of this). Quite thought provoking.
- --
- Tony Quirke, Wellington, New Zealand (Quirke_A@kosmos.wcc.govt.nz)
- "Only the free have disposition to be truthful.
- Only the truthful have the interest to be just.
- Only the just possess the willpower to be free." - WH Auden.
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