FAMILY LIFE

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 124, 27 May 1937, Page 15

FAMILY LIFE

SOUND PREPARATION

A PROFESSORIAL TALK

(By' Telegraph.)

(Special toVthe "Evening- Post.")

DU.NEDIN; This Day,

:A. suggestion- that: the Bureau of Social Science,; recently formed by the Government, Should/thoroughly investigate'1-* the "various,, conditions, ; associated with marriages that were Unsuccessful arid often led to the divorce; courts, was- advanced, by'-'Professqr, H. Reid, of Canterbury College, when •■ discussing aspects" of psychological life with the winter school of the Workers' "-Educational Association. He pointed out that since there were fewer children in the modern family, it was very important that maladjustments should,not occur. It was a question of safeguarding quality, since there was less quantity, and it was arising from that theory that 'he made a plea thatHhe Bureau should interest itself in the causes of wrecked marriages.

Discussing various types of education and-schooling* Professor Field maintained that it-was vitally important that there should be sound preparation for a healthy family life, and in that connection he asked whether1 the secondary schools in the Dominion really did give a broad sociaj experience to pupils. "Do they leave.£upl}s starved in certain aspects?" he queried. It was impossible to lay down any psychological warranty for or against co-educa-tion, but here was an extremely important question in view of the complex and. subtle nature of the modern family relationship. „ '