FAMILY LIFE.
THREATENED BY DIVORCE
EASY TO OBTAIN. '
BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT, NEW YORK, Oct. 16.
A message from New Orleans states that in a denunciation of birth control and the divorce evil, the committee of the Protestant episcopal convention declared that family life in America is threatened by divorce, which had grown by 500 per cent, in the past fifty years. The report stated: "The nation is lax. Facilities for dissolving marriage abound, inflaming every trifling dispute, inviting discord, encouraging infidelity, and stimulating hasty secret unions. ' •
"Thousands of young people, knowing that the law permits consecutive polygamy, enter the marriage state with the deliberate purpose of quitting if the first attempt is unsatisfactory. "Allowing for the beautiful exceptions, the home in America has ceased Ho function. All this accounts for the increase in lawlessness, immodesty and juvenile depravity. Education and prohibition legislation furnish no check on the Our ills grow out of the breakdown of the home.’’
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 19 October 1925, Page 5
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