PROBLEMS OF FUTURE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17911, 15 October 1932, Page 5

PROBLEMS OF FUTURE

FAMILY LIFE ASPECTS ATTITUDE TOWARDS MARRIAGE LONDON, Oct, 3. “The way in which sex is dragged into conversation in books and on the stage is a reversion to barbarism,” declares Dr. Alfred Cox, interviewed on his retirement from the secretaryship of the British Medical Association. “Unless family life and civilisation are to be broken down completely, there must be a considerable revulsion.” Referring to the growth of birth control, Dr. Cox said that it has only recently been realised that it is the duty of people to limit the family to the number they can properly support. The danger is Unit‘childless marriages result among selfish people, leading to more divorce, since childless couples take marriage less seriously. •• Lack of discipline among the young, and a disposition to regard the family as a sort of crime is probably due to children of divorced parents, who miss the discipline of family life. “The modern attitude to marriage is so indifferent,” added Dr. Cox, “that I anxiously await the arrival of the first couple simultaneously announcing their marriage and the prospective date of their divorce.”

lie continued that he noted a remarkable change in the public’s attitude towards consumption, which formerly was regarded as fatal and is now distinctly curable in its early stages.

The day was coming when comparatively rare cancer would replace consumption as the most dread disease, hut its cause might he traced any day, leading to the discovery of a cure.