Soviet Divorce Laws Tightened

Grey River Argus, 2 April 1948, Page 3

Soviet Divorce Laws Tightened

LONDON, March 31. Moscow’ reports say that the Soviet’s divorce laws are to be tightened the ollicial attitude being outlined by Professor Kolbanovsky in a lecture entitled “Home, Marriage, and Family in a Socialist Society. Professor Kolbanovsky announcing that the laws governing divorce would be made stricter, described divorce as an act of criminal baseness on the part of parents and one likely to have a disastrous effect on children. “In the Soviet Union the volgar and unworthy freelove ideas which flourished in the early Revolution days are still not entirely eradicated and 1 condemn the theory that the State should take oyer children. Socialism rejects this stud-farm principle. The family will continue even under full Communism. Parents will never renounce the joy of bringing up children. “Sound families are vital to the coutnry’s productive capacity. To regard love as a mere biological relationship is to ally alien ideas to the Communist outlook.”