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Show Divorce Is Indication I of Rising Standards 1 S By Dr. JAMES P. LICHTENBERGER. Profewor of V Sociology, UniTorsity of Ponncrlronia V frMXKKK"XK--X-X-XX-:XX-X-'X Divorce must not be regarded re-garded as an evil. It never wrecks families founded on ties of love and sympathy, but simply serves to give legal status to families which have already disinte grated. Furthermore, I contend that the divorce rate doe3 not indicate the falling off of morals among women. If anything, it denotes the coming of higher intellectual and moral standards. I should be willing to urge a law to compel families who live together without ties of mutual affection and exist under conditions in which the mother would prefer to earn her own living, rather than live with her husband, to separate. In such cases divorce is better. I believe that more good families are being formed today, despite divorce increase, than ever before in the history of the United States. |