DIVORCE PUBLICITY

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 58, 18 September 1928, Page 10

DIVORCE PUBLICITY

An increase in divorces in Great Britain was reported in a cable message yesterday and attributed to tho operation of tho law restricting publicity. A -mnilar statement was made about a .year ago, and the author of tho suppression law then denied that the facts were correctly stated. He submitted that the increase was not due to tho^ lack of publicity, but to alterations in the law which made divorce cheaper and easier. It will-be interesting to observe whether similar reasons, are now given for the continued advance. In such matters, unfortunately, ono cannot learn what motives influence the parties to dissolution proceedings. The cablo message states Hint divorce lawyers attribute tho alarming increase to the fact that prior to 1926 women preferred to suffer anything rather than faco publicity in the newspapers, but tho increase is also due to many young married iVomcn who do not attempt to make the best of their married lives. This is the difficulty to bo feared in any extension of divorce facilities. It may bo perfectly reasonable to assist the release of those parties whose hopes of happiness have been wholly destroyed; but such, measures also leave the way open to others who may approach marriage with a, lessened sense of responsibility, knowing that if they tire there is an easy way out.