Michael Pollak wrote:
>    http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/26/opinion/26coontz.html
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>    The New York Times
>    November 26, 2007
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>    Op-Ed Contributor
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>                             Taking Marriage Private
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>    By STEPHANIE COONTZ
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Good stuff. Interesting that the state intervened when racism needed to 
be enforced.
Coontz is very good. She also wrote "The Way We Never Were" a book about the delusion of a golden age of family values.
Joanna