ONE IN FOUR N.Z. MARRIAGES WILL BE UNSUCCESSFUL

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 15, Issue 28, 1 May 1950, Page 6

ONE IN FOUR N.Z. MARRIAGES WILL BE UNSUCCESSFUL

“It has been estimated that of every four marriages now being solemnised in New Zealand, one will end in separation or divirce.” —“The Outlook.”

The cause of marriage failure may be one of a dozen or so, in the opinion of the Rev. E. P. Blamires, Director of Home and Family Weeks in New Zealand, organiser of Marriage Guidance Councils, and a former member of the London Marriage Council. He has listed the causes as he sees them from his long study of the problem as follows:

Lack of vital religions faith. No epiritual! background. No strong loyalty to a normal ideal. Religious differences—as when Protestant and Roman Catholic marry.

Inhibitions: False ideas about sex, or wrong emotional attitudes developed before marriage, in youth, and often in childhood. Marriage in haste, in ignorance, without preparation. Romance without judgment or balance. Sexual maladjustment. “In-law” troubles.

Selfishness—marrying more to ge than to give. Not genuine love. Secrecy, concealment, untruthfulness, intemperance.

Incompatible temperaments or failure in forbearance.

The changed status of women, and reaction thereto. Rivalry of career with claims of home.

Differences in attitude to child ren.

Sterility.

Financial, economic, social, and housing conditions.

Many of the above aggravated by war and post-war conditions.

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