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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)...

{{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)...

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...  

Mao Zedong declared that 'women hold up half the sky'.  The Marriage Law abolished the supremacy of man over woman, and also concubinage and child-marriage. 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 [[Chinese Communist Party|CCP]] actively tried to destroy the family; in some communes men and women lived in single-sex barracks...

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>}}

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>}}