Identifier: plainhometalkabo00foot (find matches)
Title: Plain home talk about the human system--the habits of men and women--the cause and prevention of disease--our sexual relations and social natures
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Foote. Edward B(liss), 1829-1906. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Medicine, Popular Marriage
Publisher: New York : Murray Hill publishing company (etc., etc.)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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and wife. The idea that so generally prevails, that the husband should be the solemaster of all the products of the family industry or the family estates, whileit causes much annoyance and often suffering to the wife daring the contin-uance of a matrimonial contract, results in greater injustice to the wife incase of separation or divorce. In cases of this kind, often the merest pit-tance is set aside for alimony for the wife when the late husband is luxu-riating in wealth. An instance illustrative of this occurs to the mind oftho author at this moment, wherein the divorced wife of a man who isworth not less than two or three hundred thousand dollars, receives ali-mony to the extraordinary amount of seven dollars per week—consider-ably less than his coachman gets for his services! If the view I amendeavoring to impress upon the minds of the public could become general 37 866 ESSAYS FOR MARRIED PEOPLE. as to the joint copartnership of husband and wife in the family revenues Fig. 189.
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THE APPLE. Raised by the mutual industry of the pair, should be divided equally in case of separation or divorce. such injustice could not em-anate from the court-room,nor be tolerated by a Chris-tian community. The leastthat can be justly set asidefor the wife in case of sepa-ration or divorce, is an equalhalf of all that has been ac-cumulated from the day ofthe marriage to the hour ofits dissolution, unless therebe children, in which case theshare which in equity belongsto them, should first be de-ducted from the whole, andan equal division made of theremainder. Then the parentadjudged best qualified tobring up the children shouldbe the trustee of their por-tion. In most cases thisoffice would fall to the mother,and in nature ought to, unless there are reasons of sufficient weight to order otherwise. When, however, a woman marries a rich husband, or a man marries arich wife, it would be difficult to apply this rule in separation or divorce,because, if applied, it would encourage mer

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