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While we are waiting for this ideal equality to arrive, we can create as much of it as possible under existing conditions. A just as well as a wise man, even though circumstances do not permit his wife to work outside of the home, will wish her to share the control of the family budget equally with him, although she may not possess the power to demand it that comes with a pay-check. The same is true of all property rights. Complete communism and democracy should be the rule of the family: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs, and in family conferences each to count as one and no more than one—not as in past ages when man and wife were one, but that one was the husband.

It might be well to add in this connection that it is no less important that the number of participants in family councils do not exceed two than that it be no fewer than two. Nothing can destroy the love of a man for his wife so surely as for her to depend upon her relatives’ advice in all her decisions. Such dependence is an indication not only that a woman has not grown up but also that she does not truly love her husband. The same may be said for those rarer cases in which a man is tied to his  relatives.

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