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The community-property principle would indicate a 50-50 division as the appropriate intrafamily redistribution. Unlike homemaker credits, earnings sharing would finance itself in part by reducing the retirement benefit of the higher-earning spouse. It may be said to realign women's benefits with women's contributions; the variations in benefits among nonworking spouses might be justified on the somewhat unlikely ground that persons married to high-earning spouses produce more that is of social value than do persons married to lowearning spouses.

One of the consequences of this change is that the effects of noncontributory benefits paid to aged wives and widows may no longer be consistent either with their original goals or with current views of marriage, dependency, and social needs. Discontent over benefits to wives and widows arises in part from the fact that eligibility for these noncontributory benefits and the amount paid are not consistently related to current income, past earnings, or time spent out of the work force by beneficiary women.

A spouse who specializes in nonmarket production, or who finances the education of the other partner, may be said to add nonmarket income and also to contribute to the earning power of the market producer. However, no one has yet developed an objective way to evaluate the combined market and nonmarket income of such a firm, nor a way to identify the share of total income attributable to each partner. Some critics of the new home economics assert that it supports the traditional concept of the family, in which homemakers play a dependent and subservient role.

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