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Mr John Hills: I beg to move, after the word "sex," to insert the words "or marriage." This question has two aspects. The first object of the Amendment is to make the Clause apply in cases where there might be some legal disqualification imposed on women by marriage. It might be that there would be a survival of an ancient law under which the mere fact that a woman is married might disqualify her from an...
Mr Athelstan Rendall: ...they should be unfettered by any other consideration than the interests of the State, society, morality, the parties and the children. Another fundamental principle of the Commission was that marriage ought to be dissoluble when, by universal admission, the fundamental purpose for which it had been entered into had been frustrated. When, in fact, it had ceased to be a reality it was the...
...whilst the other party brings in a pecuniary addition to the resources of the household. I think a great deal of prejudice would be removed if we could get that clearly into our minds. It is not a sex question. My hon. Friend repeated an argument which I have heard him address to the House on several occasions, and to which I have replied, that this is an infringement of the Married...
Mr Dugald Cowan: ...of his duties, but also the unfailing courtesy and magnanimity which he shows to all, even to those who differ from him. This Amendment, combined with the next, cuts fairly deep. I take it that marriage in itself is not a matter which should be the subject of any financial abatement. I would like, at the same time, however, to make it clear that those for whom I speak and myself are...
Sir J. D. REES: Then how much worse off is anybody who contracts one of these marriages after the acceptance of this new Clause? I do not think it is any use at this time of day on such a question as this to refer to musty precedents. I cannot see myself, although I confess I have not studied the question very closely, how much worse anybody will be if my Noble Friend's proposal is accepted....
Sir John Butcher: ..., 1914 and 1918, so far as affects Married Women. The object of this Bill is to amend the Statute law by which a woman, whether she desires it or not, has to take the nationality of her husband on marriage. This Statute law is of comparatively modern date. By the Common law of England, marriage does not affect the nationality of a woman. A British woman, on marrying an alien, remains a...
Mr James Kidd: ...that he himself entirely misappreciated the spirit of that law. Why is this defence that a girl looks 16 allowed? It recognises the fact that there is no uniformity in the maturity of the female sex. There is a vast variation in different cases, and that variation is dictated it may be by birth, it may be by race, or it may be by many other causes, and therefore the law very properly made...
...many houses are not required now as before. A moment's examination, however, will show that that decrease was mainly one in the birthrate during the period of the War. During the last 10 years the marriage rate, which is surely the crux of the demand for houses, and the test of what you require in the way of new homes, was considerably above the average of any previous 10 years. If you...
Sir Francis Fremantle: ..., married a man suffering from cancer with the well-understood purpose of qualifying for pension under the Bill. I think if hon. Members opposite have had anything like the experience of the other sex which I have had, which I think is quite possible, they will know of many instances in which marriages have taken place for some similar avowed purpose, and, certainly, those of us who know...
Major Guy Kindersley: I beg to move, "That the Bill be now read a Second time." In asking the House to give a Second Reading to this Bill I rise with a certain amount of diffidence, and at the same time with a certain amount of assurance. I rise with a certain amount of diffidence because the Second Reading of this Bill ought really to be moved by my right hon. Friend the Member for the Aston Division of...
Mr John Remer: ...as the Bill proposed this afternoon. We have also been accustomed in the comic newspapers, in the music halls, in revue and in the theatre, to have the travesty put before us of the reversal of the sexes, where the mother goes out to work and the father stays at home to look after the baby. But one never expected that there would be an attempt made in this House to have that particular...
Mr William Joynson-Hicks: Oh, yes. The residential qualification depends on the residence entirely. Wherever the husband and wife are residing in the same house, they will both be qualified for the same residence. Perhaps I ought to say one word with regard to the university franchise. Hon. Members will see in Clause 1 of the Bill that I have given the university franchise to men and women on exactly the same terms....
Mr Frederick Macquisten: ...of the War that it did not know what was happening. Having done that, and having fixed the age of 30 for women, there was no getting out of the necessity of making the franchise equal for both sexes. I was at one time of the opinion that when the new franchise was introduced in 1918 the Government ought to have made the age 25 for both sexes, and that every serving soldier and every young...
Mr Frederick Macquisten: ...been indescribably harsh on women. In England, there is no such thing as an action for seduction. The woman is in no sense protected, because there can be no action for seduction under promise of marriage. In Scotland, we have had equal law as between men and women for hundreds of years. The moral standard of both sexes is the same in Scotland, but you have not got that here. That is why...
Mr Godfrey Locker-Lampson: ...rate and each of them is assessed separately. As soon as they marry they pay on their joint incomes at a higher sate. In fact, to put it quite shortly, a very heavy tax is placed upon the legal marriage bond. No one else is treated in this way. If two sisters are keeping house together, or two brothers, or a father and son, or a mother and daughter, each of them is treated separately for...
Sir Francis Fremantle: ...take up the position that they wish to remove individual hardships and I am sure all hon. Members would be in favour of removing individual hardships and particularly those hardships attaching to sex. The question of such hardships and difficulties has come to the front since the franchise was given to both sexes equally, bringing a large number of women on to the voting register, as a...
Miss Eleanor Rathbone: ...to discrimination against married women as such, and I reminded her that it might not be very long before her place was taken by a Minister of a different party, a different class and a different sex, who might interpret the Act in a very different spirit from what she intended it to be interpreted. 12.30 p.m. It is too soon to express a very dogmatic and final judgment as to how the Act...
Mr Herbert Williams: ...lies with her husband, and the whole of our discussion ought to take account of that. We are not dealing with people for whom somebody else has not a responsibility, and we have to realise that on marriage most women give up employment. They do not give up occupation. For census purposes, a married woman is not regarded as an occupied woman, because she does not work for gain but only for...
Mr John Gilmour: ..., is limited in scope. Its main object is one with which I think everyone must sympathise. It is to avoid the hardship which at present arises when a woman becomes stateless by reason of her marriage. As far back as 1924 the Council of the League of Nations was considering the possibility of international codification of different branches of law, and a preparatory committee gave a good...
Miss Eleanor Rathbone: ...was bad, but that the present is bad under the system of administration as we see it now and as it has been in existence since the Montagu-Chelmsford reforms. The deduction that I draw from the same unsatisfactory facts that the Noble Lady has been considering, or from similar facts, is different. I draw the deduction that the present regime in India is unsatisfactory, that we cannot go...