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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLII, Issue 20474, 20 July 1936, Page 10

More marriages are wrecked by interfering relatives, and especially by mothers-ln-law, than from any other cause. That is the opinion of Dr Alice E. Johnson, social expert to the Municipal Court of Philadelphia, who has investigated 10,000 cases of domestic unhappiness, states an exchange. Apart from family squabbling, she says, there are five other main reasons for shipwrecked homes. They are:— Different social and home background in the upbringing of the man and wife. Infidelity. Incompatibility of temperament. Drink. The desire to dominate. "The young woman who cannot leave her mother has no business to be married,” asserts Dr Johnson. And she adds: “The young man who takes the advice of his parents and his brothers and sisters in preference to that of his wife cannot possibly be a satisfactory husband.” Dr Johnson believes that the vast number of differences between husbands and wives never reach dimensions which make them irremediable.