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Memoirs of a KornilovÂ’s Regiment Soldier (Excerpted) by Alexandr Trushnovitch The issue of marriage and sex The Bolsheviks declared as their ultimate goal a society without families. The man or woman who are married, could terminate it at any time. The procedure of creating a marriage entry in the registry office was identical to the interim trade agreement without mutual guarantees. And since, according to the Bolshevik slogan of those years everyone had to work, the question of compensation in a divorce was dropped. For a child who often stayed with the mother, the father had to pay child support...

<p>Breaking with public opinion nationally, Massachusetts residents, by a slim majority, say they favor allowing gays to marry, a new Boston Globe/WBZ-TV poll shows.</p> <p>In the survey, 50 percent supported legalizing gay and lesbian marriages, while 44 percent said they oppose it. Those figures are in sharp contrast to national polls in recent years. A Kaiser Family Foundation survey in 2000 found that 55 percent of Americans questioned opposed gay marriage, while 39 percent supported it. A Pew Center poll in 2001 showed only 35 percent of people favor same-sex marriage.</p>