The house wife is an unpaid employee in her husband's house in return for the security of being a permanent employee.
Australia is a huge rest home, where no unwelcome news is ever wafted on to the pages of the worst newspapers in the world.
Guilt is one side of a nasty triangle; the other two are shame and stigma. This grim coalition combines to inculpate women themselves of the crimes committed against them.
I think that testosterone is a rare poison.
The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion.
Marriage made more sense when it was indissoluble. It's the woman trying to cope with the strains of a one-parent family who will suffer most from the relaxation of the divorce laws.