CO-RESPONDENTS IN DIVORCE

Press, Volume XC, Issue 27466, 28 September 1954, Page 10

CO-RESPONDENTS IN DIVORCE

Imprisonment Term Suggested (N.Z. Press Association.—Copyright) LONDON, Sept. 23. The “Church of England Newspaper” suggests today prison for divorce corespondents. “It seems strange that a guilty corespondent is allowed so often to go scot free when a man who breaks open a safe is sent to prison,” states the paper. “A man can destroy a home and cause untold misery, yet not be guilty of any criminal offence at all. “It is true that damages are sometimes awarded against such a man. but in many cases imprisonment would be •more fitting and would act as a deterrent to other home-breakers.”

The newspaper states that a second divorce should be made more difficult and a third divorce impossible. It adds, also, that it is too readily taken for granted that divorce should automatically foHow a single act of infidelity.

Advocating in many cases a judicial separation instead of divorce, the newspaper says that a young woman seducing* a middle-aged man is often interested only in marrying him. If she knew that the wife was not prepared to divorce her husband it was improbable that she would proceed with her “evil design.”