EASIER DIVORCE.
TRIAL MARRIAGE SCANDAL. The Paris correspondent of the Daily Mail states that Professor Parmentier. opposing in the Chamber of Deputies a Bill to facilitate divorce hr a reduction from tbree years to two years of the period of separation before a decree is made absolute, denounced trial marriages which are daily more common. He declared that the situation was scandalous. “At present,” he said, “there are 25,000 divorces yearly, which implies that 50,000 peojde are driven to misery, and thousands of children rendered homeless.
“Young people too frequently attempt trial marriages before linking their lives matrimonially.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 68, 16 February 1935, Page 8
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98EASIER DIVORCE. Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 68, 16 February 1935, Page 8
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