DIVORCE LAW
CHURCH CRITICISM
(Special to "The Evening Post.")
AUCKLAND, This Day. Tho amendment to the Divorce Act providing for' a decree after three years' mutual separation was criticised by Canon Grant Cowen at the annual meeting of the Auckland Diocesan\ Mothers' Union yesterday. Canon Grant Cowen "said that he had ascertained from lawyers in Auckland that divorces had increased 50 per cent, since the passing of the clause. Young people now married with tho idea that if things were not satisfactory they could in time gain' their freedom. This attitude toward marriage was undermining the social fabric. Young people in first years of their married life very often found it difficult to settlo into the new environment and when quarrels arose instead of making the best of thines drifted apart, and after the necessary separation availed themselves of the divorce law which was abhorentto the doctrine of the Church.
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Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 23, 27 July 1927, Page 12
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150DIVORCE LAW Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 23, 27 July 1927, Page 12
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