Show modern city life chiefly to blame for the loosening of home ties by PROF W F OGBURN university of chicago ju in primitive days and in the historical period there were seven ties bound families together 0 affection economics religion protection 3 recreation education and family status the last six bics tics have gradually loosened with the development of civilization women are econom bially independent children are more or less educated and protected by the alie state in my opinion these bonds will never return as important factors in married life the only remaining g tie is affection and t that hat is not as strong as s it used d to be the world in general and psychologists in particular should work on some means to strengthen the bond of af affection in order to hold families together after an intensive study of statistics in regard to changing family life here are some of my findings city life discourages marriage about 10 per cent of the marriages contracted in in 1928 nearly one in five will end in divorce one out of every eleven married women is working for pay outside tile home |