If they dislike her, or disapprove of her second marriage, they may demand the custody of the children.
It is true that many of these absurd laws in Louisiana are not now often enforced.

It is also true that in Louisiana and other states few men are so unjust to their wives as to take advantage of unequal property rights.

Laws always lag behind the sense of justice which lives in man.
But the point is that unequal laws still remain on our statute books, and they may be, and sometimes are, enforced.
Between these two extremes, Colorado and Louisiana, women have the other forty-six States to choose.

None of them offers perfect equality.

Even in Idaho, Wyoming, and Utah--the three States besides Colorado where women vote--women are in such a minority that their votes are powerless to remove all their disabilities.