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PART 2
EARLY AMERICA
SEX, MARRIAGE, CHILDREN, GAYS, LESBIANS, BOYS AS GIRLS, ABORTION,
BREECHING, FAMILY AND OTHER MYTHS
Some general information
SEX ROLES AND THE DIVISION OF LABOR
It has often been said that women in the colonial period had no power. This
was true in regards to property ownership (when married), the franchise and
other legal distinctions, but not true when it came to sex roles and the
division of labor. Women had their own sphere of influence, and a capable
practitioner here could exert strong influence outside her sphere. In a
broad sense, a man's sphere was outside the home, including politics, war
and commercial business, while a woman's sphere was within the home. Men
might have the final say in decorating, an extension of building the house,
but in many households the woman had as much or more influence in the
management of the estate as her husband did. Women were active participants
in farming and farm management.
Such a role required education, literacy and an ability to figure and
understand basic accounting and management skills, in addition to women's
traditional skills such as cooking, sewing and child rearing. On the large
plantations the mistress would relegate performance of many basic tasks to
servants, while she concerned herself with management. At the lower-class
levels, women did all the domestic work, and extra labor in the fields as
available.
Because the sexes had distinct roles without duplication of effort, loss of
one partner required speedy remarriage to keep the system working smoothly.
Surviving spouses would often remarry within a month of their loss,
regardless of gender. The Victorian ideal of mourning had not yet arisen.
In time a few sects would come to require a "seemly" period of mourning,
for example, the Quakers (one year).
SOURCE: The Writer's Guide, Everyday Life in Colonial America From 1607 -
1783. Dale Taylor. Weiter's Digest Books (1997) p. 120
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You are invited to check out the following:
The Rise of the Theocratic States of America
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/theocracy.htm
American Theocrats - Past and Present
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/theocrats.htm
The Constitutional Principle: Separation of Church and State
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/index.html
[and to join the discussion group for the above site and/or Separation of
Church and State in general, listed below]
HRSepCnS · Hampton Roads [Virginia] SepChurch&State
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HRSepCnS/
[Its not just Hampton Roads folks who are members, there are members from
all over the US and a couple from overseas as well]
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.. . . You can't understand a phrase such as "Congress shall make no law
respecting an establishment of religion" by syllogistic reasoning. Words
take their meaning from social as well as textual contexts, which is why "a
page of history is worth a volume of logic." New York Trust Co. v. Eisner,
256 U.S. 345, 349, 41 S.Ct. 506, 507, 65 L.Ed. 963 (1921) (Holmes, J.).
Sherman v. Community Consol. Dist. 21, 980 F.2d 437, 445 (7th Cir. 1992)
.. . .
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"You pilot always into an unknown future;
facts are your only clue. Get the facts!"
That philosophy 'snipit' helped to get me, and my crew, through a good
many combat missions and far too many scary, inflight, emergencies.
It has also played a significant role in helping me to expose the
plethora of radical Christian propaganda and lies that we find at
almost every media turn.
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THE CONSTITUTIONAL PRINCIPLE:
SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE

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