Show Attitude Toward Divorce Changing Fast in America Th The The American attitude toward divorce di dl vorce has changed from severe condemnation to acceptance II as perhaps inevitable and even necessary necessary sary according to t a Yale sociologist A high divorce rate John declares Is logically necessary when marriages are based on individualist and erotic criteria With our empasis upon personality personality personality per per- attraction and romance in selection of marriage partners we must expect many couples to discover dis cover themselves seriously mis mis- mated psychologically and unable to lIve tractably with each other When couples frustrate each other othern In n the basic purposes of marriage they very quickly fall out of ot love and have to be freed treed from unhappy or Intolerable marriages The Yale Vale sociologist predicts that Americas America's divorce rate will remain high Although he says that now divorce seems pretty much a part of our way of family life lite Mr cites the bumper crop I of ot babies during this past decade social legislation in housing employment employment em em- employment urban redesign and socIal social so so- social cial welfare as 81 good signs on the horizon Such stabilizing action he states is s increasingly important in keeping keeping keeping keep keep- ing families intact In addition Mr praises the new emphasis emphasis em em- on intelligent discussion of at and education in marriage and family problems All AH oi of these can affect the divorce rate it is amenable amenable amenable amen amen- able to rational control contro In 1940 1946 Mr says the US U.S. reached a peak with divorces roughly one failure in every three marriages He estimated estimated esti mated that at present one of at every four to five marriages results in divorce Similar trends In divorce are found in fn virtually every European European European Euro Euro- society |