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Mao’s attempts to remove the family from the center of Chinese life ultimately failed, but not before destroying a few aspects of traditional culture.<ref>[https://chinachange.org/2011/03/17/the-chinese-family-under-mao/ ''The Chinese Family Under Mao'']. Chinachange.org</ref>}}
 
Mao’s attempts to remove the family from the center of Chinese life ultimately failed, but not before destroying a few aspects of traditional culture.<ref>[https://chinachange.org/2011/03/17/the-chinese-family-under-mao/ ''The Chinese Family Under Mao'']. Chinachange.org</ref>}}
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John D. Clares states about Mao's 150 marriage law:
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{Cquote|It allowed a wife to divorce her husband, but forbade a husband to divorce his wife if she had a child less than one year old...
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The CCP actively tried to destroy the family; in some communes men and women lived in single-sex barracks...
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So many women asked for a divorce that Party officials started refusing permission, despite a re-issuing of the Marriage Law in 1953.<ref>[http://www.johndclare.net/China7.htm The impact of the Communists’ reforms 1949-63]</ref>}}
    
== French Revolution, atheism and divorce ==
 
== French Revolution, atheism and divorce ==
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