INCREASE IN DIVORCES.
MUTUAL SEPARATION CLAUSE " UNDERMININC SOCIAL FABRIC." The 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 he had ascertained from lawyers in Auckland that divorces had increased 50 per cent, since the passing of the clause in question. Young people now married with the idea that if things were not satisfactory they could in time gam their freedom. This attitude toward marriage was undermining the social fabric. Young people, in the first years of their married life, very often found it difficult to settle into a new environment, and when quarrels arose, instead of making the best of things, they ! drifted part, and after the necessary 'sepi aration, availed themselves of the divorce law, which was abhorent to the doctrine I of t,he Church.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19699, 27 July 1927, Page 12
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153INCREASE IN DIVORCES. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19699, 27 July 1927, Page 12
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