family law

I think it the nature of women to have different values and a different perspective on history.  For example, which heading is the best one for discussing social changes and more specifically changes in family law that directly important to our lives?   Would this be a subject desired for the magazine?  Perhaps nothing can give us a better understanding our past and present than knowledge of changing family law.  

1941 copy of "The Oregon Law of Family Relations" by Roy M. Lockenour

Code 63-301   makes parents "liable for the support of adult children when they are poor and unable to work to maintain themselves."   

and how about this one...

"29.  Right of Husband to Wife's Services and Earnings.  Oregon law gives wife the right to her separate earnings.  Cold 63-204 Ore. Const., Art. XV, Sec. 5.  In other words, she has the same rights respecting her money that she earns as her husband does.  She and her husband are equally entitled to the earnings of their children.  Code, 63-394.  However, the common law still gives an Oregon husband the right to his wife's services in connection with the discharge of her ordinary marital and domestic duties.  Theoretically. the wife has no right to desert her marital and domestic to go out to earn money, leaving her husband to care for the home or compel him to employ someone for that purpose.  But the only practical way of enforcing this right is to obtain a divorce and marry another woman who will perform her obligations.

This subject goes with things like economics and government services.  Today, instead of relying on family to take care of family, we rely on the state, and many modern countries are having an economic problem, that necessitates cutting back on government spending.  Might we consider changing our laws again, legally returning responsibility for family to the family?  How might this impact our lives?  

My own son and daughter are complete unaware of our past, and everyone has come down on me for speaking of family duty.   They tell me, I am to do everything because I "love" my family.   My granddaughter's have been extremely careless and are now raising children without fathers.   One has a job and the other is dependent on the state.   At least they help each other, but they get here by believing things about "freedom", that their parents taught them, and that maybe we need to adjust?   They are darn lucky to have a grandmother who bases decisions on a concept of family duty, and my son and his wife are very glad my sense of family duty means caring for their youngest child, after I asked them to please stop having children.   While I am grinding my teeth, and am dealing with feelings of resentment, as I deal with the after math of everyone's "freedom" and ideas of about what it mean to be a good citizen.    For a couple of generations now, old folks like me have dealing with the backlash of amoral education for a technological society.  How can something this serious not be in our history books?  If social changes like this are in HIS STORY books, please tell me the names of the books.   

Originally posted by Nick1986 Kids never seem to appreciate what their parents have done for them. I myself only realised it after starting university

 

Then a few years later, the kids stick you in one of them dodgy nursing homes.

Like the saying goes, "be nice to your kids, they get to choose the nursing home you go to".