DIVORCE HABIT

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19433, 19 October 1925, Page 8

DIVORCE HABIT

EQUALITY OF THE SEXES

ALIMONY HUNTERS CONDEMNED So barefaced and shameless has become the traffic by women in America of seeking alimoqy from, husbands whom they have quickly cast aside shortly after marriage that one of the leading judicial authorities of the country, Justice Selah B. Strong, of the Supreme Court, has announced in New York that he does not intend to lend the part of the Supreme Court in which he happens to be presiding to any scheme of a childless woman to force alimony from her husband. In this day of equality of the sexes, he said, there is no reason why divorced husbands should be compelled to contribute to the support of wives who had borne, them no children. . ...... “In these days of equal rights there is no reason why a woman should be awarded alimony,” he said, ‘except where there are children. If a woman does not love her husband, or cannot 'stand his treatment, let her separate | from him.” said Judge Strong. “ there is no law which compels a woman to remain in her husband’s home .She is •'at liberty to leave whenever she wants Ito do sol Of course, where there are I children the hus'band must expect to suv’-o-t them, and the law forces him to‘sc so. Generally, it is the mother I c f the children who is the last person I in tho world to appear in the divorce | COUl’t. , ~ “WW a woman starts a separation i action she is either ‘hot under the colI lar ’ or she is filled, with a desire for re-err’ A man is almost powerless, and she knows it. When she gets her temporary award she is independent. She is mistress of the situation. “I have studied Court records, and have" found that there are twenty separate suits started to every divorce. Women only want alimony., They tire of i. r .-.- oa s-.ds,%nd get nd of them, but'sti.il hold their hands out for tin cash. This does not reflect on the great mass of good, noble women who, fortunately, are independent of chanty. “Imagine tho predicament of a man who m com veiled to pay temporary alimony for five years to a woman who hates him, but who will not divorce him. It is nothing short' of slavery. “In this' enlightened day, when tho sexes are supposed to be equal, I do not believe that childless wives should receive alimony. Women to-day err as much, and in many cases, more than men.”