Qasim Rashid
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Today I learned that after no fault divorce was legalized in 1970, female suicide rates dropped 20%🤯

The "strong 1950s family unit" that GOP is nostalgic about ignores record high female suicide, suffocating domestic violence, & zero female financial autonomy

But maybe that's GOP's goal?
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05:04 PM - Mar 01, 2023
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I have previously heard the drop correlated to Roe v. Wade - same time period. I wonder what it really was?
06:01 PM - Mar 01, 2023
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Presumably a combination of those two factors and possibly others. The long-term trend might have been (slightly) downward, for example. Of course, if that trend was upward, then the two changes likely had a more than 20% effect.
06:24 PM - Mar 01, 2023
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Women finally got their own credit cards in 1974. Our faces started showing up on TV as newscasters, sitcoms started starring single, independent women ... The 70s were a sea change, and lots of us forget how it was before then
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06:39 PM - Mar 01, 2023
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