SOVIET WIVES AS BREADWINNERS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LI, Issue 16871, 28 October 1925, Page 4

SOVIET WIVES AS BREADWINNERS

WHERE AUNTS MAY WED NEPHEWS. easy DIVORCE. LONDON, Sept. 9—The report of the British women trade unionists who recently went to Russia lias been published. Dealing with marriage and divorco under the Soviet system, the delegation says : “A girl has the right to marry at sixteen, and a boy at the age of eighteen. Marriage is prohibited between near relations, but not between uncle and ncico or nephew and aunt. “The wedded name of the couple may be that of the husband or wife, or each mav continue to use then own name, just as they desire. A, Soviet woman marrying a foreigner remains a Soviet citizen. ° A woman of another nationality, say British, marrying a Soviet citizen, remains, according to Soviet law, a British citizen, and may only adopt Soviet citizenship in accordance with the ordinary rules and regulations for the naturalisation of foreigners in the Soviet Union. “The husband cannot force the wife to follow him if he removes to a new place of residence. COMPULSORY. “During illness, unemployment, or incapacitation of husband or wife, the one in a position to do so must support the other.- Even if divorce takes place durin,_r this time, the support of husband to wife or vice versa, continues until such time as there is no further need for it.” Marriage under Soviet law is purely a civil contract, and divorce is easy. “All that the husband and wife have to do is to come to an understanding that they desire to part; this they have to communicate to the proper authorities, together with their marriage certificate or a signed statement of their present married condition, and the divorce is ganted them.”