John D. Clares states about Mao's 150 marriage law:
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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{{Cquote|Traditionally, women were regarded as inferior to men. Girls had to be obedient to their fathers, wives to their husbands and old women to their sons (the Marriage Law abolished this)...
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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...
The CCP actively tried to destroy the family; in some communes men and women lived in single-sex barracks...
The CCP actively tried to destroy the family; in some communes men and women lived in single-sex barracks...