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ENGLAND and Wales now have the highest divorce rate of any West European coun try.

And while it's true that many divorcees are keen to have go, estimated that 40 per cent of second marriages end up the samnit way.

"The increase in the rate of divorce amounts social revolution which af fects the whole of society says a report just published by the Society of Conservative lawyers.

• or more accurately, as feminists have explained. the women in the family WN _ to perform many services which otherwise provided and paid for by the state lawyers estimate these services currently cost more than a billion pounds a year.

MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE 40 first marriages, thousands 300.

1961626364656667 The family unit is not only cheaper, also more etticient at reproduc ing properly moulded members of the community.

Whatever the problems of nuclear family most people even see it as a haven and a comfort Socialisation by the colo hand of the state machine will always be less acceptable and less effective.

More and more, reactionaries are arguing that the liberalising laws of the late our on abortion divorce. homosexuality, were a huge miscalculaFlood Instead of merely relaxing the harsh penalties meted out "misfits which was all that the laws intended to achieve - iney opened the floodgates to thousands 'Orwhy socialists are a hundred per cent behind each of them, however inadequate!

For women par ticular the reforms of the late '60s, well as Equal Pay Act which was won in 1970, reflected rea. advances and provided a 68 69 1970 71 12 73 74 75 basis from which womer have against assumption that their place was at home Now that the labour shortage of the 60s ha been replaced by chronic unemployment, ministers are clear abou to the home, and we can expect to see them prepared to consider seriously any measure which would help to women once more to traditional ideas of family life But they can be in no doubt about the sort reception any proposals to tighten up the divorce law would receive The massive support to defend the 1967 Abortion Act achieved by the Na. tional Abortion Campaign would rallied OlILC more, and at a time wher. support the govern ment is at its lowest ebb.