"[90] We want no more local interests, recollections,
dialects, idioms and patriotisms. Only one bond should subsist
between individuals, that which attaches them to the social body. We
sunder all others; we do not tolerate any special aggregation; we do
the best we can to break up the most tenacious of all, the family. -
We therefore give marriage the status of an ordinary contract: we
render this loose and precarious, resembling as much as possible the
free and transient union of the sexes; it shall be dissolved at the
option of both parties, and even of one of the parties, after one
month of formalities and of probation. If the couple has lived
separate six months; the divorce may be granted without any probation
or delay; divorced parties may re-marry. On the other hand, we
suppress marital authority: since spouses are equal, each has equal
rights over common property and the property of each other ; we
deprive the husband of its administration and render it "common" to
both parties. We abolish "paternal authority;"
" it is cheating nature to enforce her rights through constraint. .
. . The only rights that parents have are those of protection and
watchfulness.
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