<p>The Catholic Church built its doctrine on divorce on this principle. Indoctrinate people with the conviction that their marriage is indissoluble, that there is no way out that whatever the nature of the relationship, it is for keeps and they will become reconciled to it.</p>

<p>»The only honorable career for a woman is marriage. She is required by public opinion to devote herself to a particular man and to defer to men in general. She has been trained from birth to do this. Any &gt;personal&lt; ambitions are secondary, and if she goes against this she is flaunting values held universally by society and internalized by her..

<p>The data in the study by Knupfer et al were derived from a reinterview in 1964 of 979 persons from an area probability sample in San Francisco first interviewed in 1962. The reinterview sample was biased in the direction of heavy drinkers, but »this bias is not sufficiently great to render the sample appreciably different from San Francisco as a whole in its distribution on any of the common demographic variables.« Knupfer et al., op. cti., p. 841. Intrasample controls - sex and marital status (Tables 5-4 and 5-5) - are not invalidated by such overrepresen-tation.

<p>Pauline B. Bart, »Depression in Middle-Aged Women: Some Sociocultural Factors,« paper presented to Society for Study of Social Problems, 1968, Table 3.</p>

<p>Floyd Mansfield Martinson, Family in Society (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1970), p. 177.</p>

<p>The assumption made by the unsophisticated that a woman who engages in activities as an individual in her own right has to be unmarried was illustrated when male hecklers shouted to women participating in the Women's Strike, August 26, 1970, »get married!« They were nonplussed when the women shouted back that they were married. That situation violated the males' conception of wifehood, of marriage itself.</p>

<p>Bernard, American Family Behavior, p. 453.</p>

<p>Raymond R. Willoughby, »The Relationship to Emotionality of Age, Sex, and Conjugal Condition,« American Journal of Sociology 43 (March 1938): 923.

<p>Jessie Bernard, American Family Behavior (New York: Harper, 1942), p. 453.</p>

<p>Ibid., p. 72.</p>