'A Woman voting for divorce is like a turkey voting for christmas'

[tenderloins1]

'A Woman voting for divorce is like a turkey voting for christmas'

The Alice Glenn Report - anti Divorce 1986

This may interest some of you to give you an idea of the times.

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[FutureChiefJustice]

Pain in the hoop to try and read what with all the URL messing but kinda worth it. She is short on mention of women trapped in abusive marriages and apparently just plain 'ol unhapiness is no reason to to get divorced. Those opposed to divorce were probably the ones in the more insecure marriages, who would be unhappier as a divorcee than in an unhappy marriage.

Interestingly, for an idealist she consistently rants on about money when any consideration about marriage, in an ideal world, should be anything but.

[tenderloins1]

double post

[FakeViking]

Is raving loonie Alice still with us? In some home for the demented, but happy I hope!

If Christy Moore hadn't sung about her she's be just another one of the discredited and forgotten.

[reknaw]

"A Woman voting for divorce is like a turkey voting for christmas"

Tell that to Ivana Trump. When the Donald starting getting the leg over elsewhere, she didn't get mad - she got everything.

[slx]

I know several people who were forced to leave the country to get on with their lives when we had no divorce and they were stuck in terrible marriages.

No divorce creates truely terrible situations.

[Wendy]

Pain in the hoop to try and read what with all the URL messing but kinda worth it. She is short on mention of women trapped in abusive marriages and apparently just plain 'ol unhapiness is no reason to to get divorced. Those opposed to divorce were probably the ones in the more insecure marriages, who would be unhappier as a divorcee than in an unhappy marriage.

Interestingly, for an idealist she consistently rants on about money when any consideration about marriage, in an ideal world, should be anything but.

Well, when a marriage officially breaks down, money is what it's all about.

[Nodin]

'A Woman voting for divorce is like a turkey voting for christmas'

The Alice Glenn Report - anti Divorce 1986

This may interest some of you to give you an idea of the times.

This is easier giving each page in larger size.

Front page of Leaflet

Page 2


Page 3


Back Page

Makin me feel old now.....

[mr_anderson]

How mainstream were these views at the time ?

[Wendy]

How mainstream were these views at the time ?

My recollection is of them being stigmatised as cruel or antedeluvian by the media luvvies of the day. The official line was mushy stuff about the right to a second chance at happiness in marriage, based on an unexamined belief that the decision to end a marriage is nearly always a tidy, mutual one.