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Show Why Don't Roosevelts Stay Wed? Psychiatry Says Just "Spoiled" "desperate" efforts to save some of their children's marriages, the author quotes Mrs. Roosevelt's own writings to indicate her attitude at-titude when they failed. "Certainly," "Cer-tainly," she wrote, "if two people no longer love each other, that is sufficient cause for divorce." Although John Roosevelt is less interested in politics than any of his three brothers, he may yet have the best chance of following his late father to the White House. This opinion is based on the fact that John has never been divorced, di-vorced, while his sister and brothers bro-thers have had nine marriages and seven divorces. "It is a deep-seated conviction of many political analysists," says an article in the March issue of Cosmopolitan magazine, "that sooner or later we are going to have another President Roosevelt. It has been nearly thirty years since a Hyde Park Roosevelt lost an election. Will their multi-divorce record hurt them now?" Titled "Why Don't the Roosevelts Roose-velts Stay Married," the article cites psychologists' explanations that the problem is broadly, the problem of the social set into which the Roosevelts were born. The author recounts the record to date: Ann, two marriages, two divorces; James, two marriages, one divorce; Elliott, three marriages, mar-riages, three divorces; Franklin, two marriages, one divorce; and John, one marriage, no divorce. According to the article, one close acquaintance of the family once commented, "They act so-so adolescent!" Other observers speak of "emotional immaturity." But a psychiatrist is quoted as saying, "In homelier words, they are spoiled." Being spoiled, the author adds, "the married partners are loath to make the adjustments and concessions conces-sions that every successful marriage mar-riage requires; and being economically economi-cally secure, they see in divorce an 'easy way out." 'as for the cause of the Roosevelts' Roose-velts' immaturity, "an eminent psychiatrist" is quoted as saying, "Look for a father too important or too busy . . to pay much attention at-tention to his children; and a leisure lei-sure household where the children are cared for by nurses . . . and never get to share . . . their own problems with their parents." Acknowledging that the president presi-dent and Mrs. Roosevelt did make |