HOW BRITAIN IS REDUCING DIVORCE RATE
WELLINGTON, Dec. 3. That the first step towards preyenting increased divorce rates is adequate preparation for marriage is the view of a former president of the Methodist Church of New Zealand, Rev. E. P. Blamires, who yesterday returned to New Zealand by the Wahine from Sydney after nine years in Britain. Mr/ Blamires spent much of his time in Britain stu'dying the work of the Marriage Guidance Coun_cil, and he sai'd he would report to the New Zealand Council of Churches, which might begin some form of marriage guidance work in New Zealand. . To help reduce the number of broken marriages, the Marriage Guidance Council was set up in London in 1943. The training of marriage guidance councillors included the taking of lectures on education and preparation for marriage, marriage problems in the Magistrate's Court, marriage as a sex relationships marriage as a psychological - relationship, approach to parenthood, juvenile delinquency and the family, and the ethical and spiritual b.asis qf marriage guidance. Similar councils, he said, had been set up in South Australia, Sydney and South Africa. .
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Chronicle (Levin), 3 December 1947, Page 4
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