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Family relations are chaotic and retarding; although the typical family everywhere is sexist, authoritarian, and stripped of effective functions by society and technology; people stay with it because of compulsion, sickness, dependency, and lack of anywhere to go. The family must be a constitutional organ, rehearsing later life; its members need equal chances to express their qualities, to elect membership beyond fourteen years; as a center of productive emotions; affiliated with surrogates for the old extended families; its members should be assured financial independence.

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