More depressing stuff from NZPA - Pregnant woman beaten for bearing girl.
The fifties were before our time, for most of us anyway, but back then over 90% of the adults were married, and back then divorce was hard to get and rare.
And back then people had lots of children, we are them in many cases, the so called boomers.
We have been led to believe that society was oppressive in the 1950s, that women were trapped in oppressive marriages, often of the so called "shotgun" variety since unwedded motherhood was frowned upon.
But in this so called oppressive society where the constraints upon behavior were culturally imposed in a semi mono-cultural society, one which immigrants apparently adapted to our ways or returned to from whence they came, also had about three murders per annum - we are achieving that per week in our liberated multicultural paradise.
Anyway the gentleman who took to his wife for conceiving a daughter is not from around these parts by the sound of his name, nor is he his wife's first partner, indeed he has stepdaughters, also casualties in this sorry episode.
And you have to wonder if the so called oppressive culture of the fifties was in fact - liberating.
The fifties were before our time, for most of us anyway, but back then over 90% of the adults were married, and back then divorce was hard to get and rare.
And back then people had lots of children, we are them in many cases, the so called boomers.
We have been led to believe that society was oppressive in the 1950s, that women were trapped in oppressive marriages, often of the so called "shotgun" variety since unwedded motherhood was frowned upon.
But in this so called oppressive society where the constraints upon behavior were culturally imposed in a semi mono-cultural society, one which immigrants apparently adapted to our ways or returned to from whence they came, also had about three murders per annum - we are achieving that per week in our liberated multicultural paradise.
Anyway the gentleman who took to his wife for conceiving a daughter is not from around these parts by the sound of his name, nor is he his wife's first partner, indeed he has stepdaughters, also casualties in this sorry episode.
And you have to wonder if the so called oppressive culture of the fifties was in fact - liberating.