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An interesting piece...poorly researched. Who is Fr.Eremito Rebello, anyway?Anthropologist?? And who is Anthony Fernandes?? Not someone to confuse for Dr.Aurelian Fernandes of Goa University,I hope. A pretty concept on how to get a "posko" by sowing wild oats. This practice may be recommended to solve the problem of the disappearing domestic help! Viva Goa. Miguel original message... > Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2004 12:27:20 +0530 (IST) > From: "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [Goanet]Women From Goa's Elite Families Slowly Rejecting Spinsterhood > ID4497.1248 August 8, 2003 51 EM-lines (579 words) > PANAJI, India (UCAN) Father Eremito Rebelo, who teaches philosophy at the archdiocesan major seminary , told UCA News that women of rich aristocratic families traditionally have ended up spinsters . > Maria Peres is one of the women who is changing the old tradition. She recently married someone from outside her caste. > She told UCA News such expectations are now unrealistic and "sensible parents" have relaxed them. With most bachelors in her caste addicted to vices such as drinking, she said, women have to look farther for a life partner. > > Tecla Figuerido, 45, a spinster working at a private company, told UCA News she sacrificed her marriage plans because of her father's objections Figuerido now lives in an apartment house, bought with her earnings, near the state capital Panaji, some 1,910 kilometers southwest of New Delhi. She said she moved out to avoid constantly bickering at home with her sister, who is also a spinster. She visits her family home on weekends. > > Social scientist Antonio Fernandes says marriages among these elite Catholic families as well as suppression of natural needs has led toeccentricity. He noted that in the colonial days, if a spinster became pregnant, her child would be sent to an orphanage to avoid scandal to the family. When the child was sufficiently grown, the family would bring the child home and raise him or her as "posko" (adopted). > > About 29 percent of Goa's 1.3 million people are Catholics, and nearly 65 percent are Hindus. > > END
