UNSUCCESSFUL MARRIAGES

Press, Volume XCIV, Issue 28016, 10 July 1956, Page 7

UNSUCCESSFUL MARRIAGES

Lack Of Knowledge To Failure (New Zealand Press Association) GISBORNE, July 9. Many young people married each year knowing little of what marriage meant and dazzled with its glamour, ~ r : P« R - Mace, Professor of Human Relations at Drew University, New Jersey, told the Gisborne Rotary Club today. Of these marriages, a certain proportion would inevitably fail unless these couples got outside help. It was wrong to let young people marry with the certainty that some of their marriages would inevitably founder without doing something to help them. Dr. Mace said most of the people who went to the divorce court were at their wits’ end and could see no other way out. They were to be pitied not blamed. An important part of a marriage guidance council’s work was the advising of young people about to marry or at the beginning of their married life, said Dr. Mace. Many of the marriages that ended in divorce were not marriages that had gone wrong but marriages that had never gone right because the parties to them had not known at the start what marriage involved. Such ignorance in respect of other subjects would not be tolerated. It was senseless that young people should be brought up in ignorance of the most vital of human relationships. Everything touching on marriage—the rearing of children, marital and family responsibilities—should be known to young people before marriage, said Dr. Mace.