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Show 2 Main Stops , Utah Should Act to Cut Divorco By Dan ValeatUM . . Marriac la Bke a business. Sue-ceee Sue-ceee depend upon the full cooperation coopera-tion of both partners. When both partners coat get aloof for any one of hundred of reasons the marruuja Is apt to fail. There are 5, 000,000 successful or semisuccessful marriafea la the Edltor'a aetet Ttua la the fourth ta a aerlea af arttrlM eatlinlas; the prabtems i eased la t'tah aecsety by dtveres aa4 broken kamea. United States. Many of these win f ail tn the next It months, endinf up la the nation's divorce court. Ia many states, sympathetic Judges and social workers will do their best to salvage theae marriages. mar-riages. But not la Utah. Utah grinds out divorcee like a machine a cold machine! ' Parodoxically, a falling business baa a better chance for recovery la Utah than falling marriage. When a busies atarta to fall, the book, flgurea, chart and history his-tory of the firm la taken Into court most of the time a bankruptcy court and trained investigators pour over the books trying to salvage sal-vage something for the eerditors. ' But a failing, bankrupt marriage mar-riage has creditors, too. The creditors of a marriage are children chil-dren and theae children are the sufferers from a broken home. Why can't bankrupt marriages receive at least the same amount of the court's sympathy as a bankrupt buainees? TraU-Btaalag States Many states have solved the problem, and In these trall-blaatng states a marriage la not dissolved until the judgs feels sure la his own mind that the marriage has, no chance of succeeding. Then he grants a divorce, but not before. Reams of statistics could b cited about the nation appalling divorce rate. Utah Is keeping pace In the divorce parade. Studious opinion of trained Jurist and sociologists so-ciologists could be given. But the path always leads back to the vital need for trained marriage counselors counse-lors and Investigators for every divorce case. Dr. Rex A. Skidmore, aesodata professor ot sociology and social work at the University of Utah, asys there la "no doubt" that mar-riags mar-riags counselor "who know their buainesa" could salvage a great many marriages. He declined to give any percentage. Premarital Stadias "The causes for divorce are so personal,'' ha explained, "every case la different It la hard to make tried and fast rules in social studies. But there la no doubt that trained marriage eouneslors could save many marriage." However, Dr. Skidmore la more Impriassd with peat reoorda eom-plled eom-plled on marriages which have been cushioned with special premarital pre-marital studies. He cited the ease of a Columbus, O aodal worker who has kept reoorda of 1S00 couples married In the past 12 years. Each of the eouplea haa attended a epectal premarital pre-marital course of Instruction. Only alne divorce have resulted from these 1600 marriages. "That's quite a record,' Dr. Skidmore say. Pride playa an Important part In moat divorcee. Of course, financial finan-cial difficulties, outalde-the-home activities. Incompatibility, unfaithfulness un-faithfulness are also common cause of divorce. - But many times divorce Is the direct result of a stubborn pride on the part of the married parties. In the heat of anger, married people hurl taunts at each other. It makes little difference that these taunts are not meant from the heart. A person pride to wounded; he or aha atalks out of the bouse and goes horns to mother or to father. A disinterested third party could handle theae pride divorce with ease. Usually, both parties want to get back together, but their pride won't let them. With the help of a marriage eounaelor, they could be reunited la a matter of minutes and sent on their way back to many more years of marriage. |
