| Show Why Divorces 1 Judge Ben nen B. B 1 LIndsey The divorce rate In the United States continues to increase So Bo does the alarm of ot various sociologists church people judges and public officials What if U anything to do about It Looser divorce laws Or tighter ones A uniform divorce law for the nation Legal recognition of trial marriages or of ot Judge Ben Den B. B Lindseys Lindsey's Invention companionate marriage Raise the age bf of consent Bet Set up more less formal family courts The question at the bottom of It all of co course is Why do we have so 80 many divorces If Ir we could find an answer to that wed we'd be on the way toward solving the divorce problem But when you begin to think about It the first thing you run against fathe is fa the fact that you JOU cant can't generalize You cant can't work wort out an answer that will wW hold good for so many as a dozen wrecked marriages of which you personally have knowledge knowledg i In one case she had more will power than he and in desperation he slunk away from front her domineering personality In another both had will power in about equal each wanted to be boss a and d the explosion came in short mon order Or he was the old fashioned lad Jad who Intends to Be De Master In His Uta Own Home by Heavens and and she he answered with a modern horse laugh and a sum sum- mons Or they weren't Interested In the Ute same things and neither would try to any sympathy for the others other interests Or she made jokes about the Ute work he did and nd he hadn't sense enough to realize that they were jokes jokes jokes- or maybe they Or but Or-but but one could fill the paper with these theae case reports Is there any answer that can help even a fair percentage of people who think of getting a divorce Here Heres one put out for what it may be worth Fifty years Yearl ago parents taught their children that they could not have everything that to In this world dreams dont don't often come true Ue Those children grew crew up Man Many of of them thinking back over their childhood concluded that It had been a pretty dreary drearr disappointing period They resolved that their children should have a pleasanter time Meanwhile the country was growing richer Everybody was wu making more money The children of these later parents were better fed had more to amuse them Some Borne of them came to believe that the World owed them not only a living but happiness and contentment as well and all aU for very little effort on their part These children are now grown They are marrying one another Many of them expect to get everything out of marriage while putting next to no thought or effort or self self-sacr self sacrifice Into it They fall fail to realize that marriage is Ia perhaps the most difficult business in life Ute and therefore the most moat worth while and when that fact comes home to them they wilt under Its terrifying reality So Bo with many a reservation and exception duly noted we e add our five cents cents' worth to the eternal discussion of divorce by observing that one of ot its major causes today is the existence of too many spoiled children walking around around around a- a round in long lone trousers and s1 short ort skirts |
