DIVORCE
Sir,—“Observer” claims that a higher divorce rate is due to “the higher education of women” —which presumably puts mere married happiness beneath their dignity—and greater opportunities of work at good pay. His remedy, presumably, would be to abolish these, and make marriage a woman’s only hope of changing her circumstances. I would say that the causes are not economic, but moral, a lowering of the marriage ideal as an aim requiring and deserving an effort to reach, and the neglect of the smaller and too easily overlooked Christian virtues of kindness and generosity, which are often handicaps in business but necessities of the highest priority in the hotne.—Yours, etc., JOHN H. T. CURNOW. Ashburton, June 10, 1946.
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Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24899, 12 June 1946, Page 10
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