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Article: Domestic Tranquility; Modern Marriage in America And the Balance of Power
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- The Washington Post
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- December 22, 1991
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MARRIAGE, OR SO we keep hearing, is back.
What is back, though, is not the old 1950s, traditional,
Father-Knows-Best, go-along-to-get-along, kind of marriage. In its
place is New Marriage, where the rules have been rewritten about the
balance of power between husband and wife.
This marriage reform movement comes out of two decades of
marital chaos, much of it reflected in the doubling of the divorce
rate. As images of mistletoe and "Silent Night" tug the psyche, the
ghosts of Christmases Past may wag their fingers at you: How happy
is your family, really? How good is your marriage, really? Since
suffering in silence is no longer psychologically correct, would you