Recently I read that the Bishops of Malta were due to issue a pastoral letter before or after the law on divorce comes into effect. How courageous.
Politicians, including our Prime Minister, have been advocating that women go out to work.
Does the Prime Minister not know that marriage in Malta started to get into trouble when women were encouraged to go out to work in factories in the 1950s? I got married in 1960 and my wife was a trained teacher and she knew that as soon as we got married she would be thrown out of her job. In any case, I would not have allowed her to work since I am against married women working. I believed, and still do, that the woman’s place is in the home looking after her children.
At present there is an advertising campaign, sponsored by the EU, which goes something like this: “Dora has three children and she is a full-time teacher. In order to cope she needs help from all her family”. Of course, from her parents, her husband’s parents, her sisters, her aunts etc.
And for what? So that she will pay an NI contribution and the Minister of Finance would have more money to play with and perhaps increase his salary once again. Do not think that the politicians are in favour of women working for some noble reason – far from it.
When women went out to work the family structure was disrupted once and for all. There is no way that life goes back to the good old days when children went home from school to their mother. Children these days go to an empty home to watch TV or “play” on their PC while their mother is at work.
Another reason why marriages are on the rocks is the University.
Once women go to university and graduate their prime target is their career not the family.
Once they get married, graduated women lead a very independent life and their marriage is one of convenience.
The latest nail in the coffin of marriage is the “separation of acquests” as opposed to “the community of acquests”.
What this means is that the husband and wife lead a separate life and there is simply nothing to bind them together.
In the past 60 years I have never heard the church leaders – the bishops – condemning the campaign encouraging women to go to work.
They are now going to issue a pastoral letter – wow.