TRIAL MARRIAGES
LACK OF STJC&EBS SHOWN
LONDON, December 3
“Trial marriages, are unsuccessful and, often end in bitter disillusionment and tragedy,” said! Mrs Neville Rolfe, secretary of the British Hygiene Council, addressing a Mayfair audience. Those in touch with - many young people who have been experimenting in trial marriages, she said, realise how sadly many have been disappointed. “A temporary liaison, excluding chib dren,” added Mrs Rolfe, “can never be a real trial of marriage, because it debars psychological and) physiological attunement from the outset. Although a proportion of trial . marriages ends in. real marriage, there is also much tragedy among the participants.”. Mrs Rolfe advocated married women having a definite professional' or voluntary interest outside the home.
“One of the main reasons for disharmony in the home,” she said, “is a woman’s lack of intellectual' interest, resulting in her -abnormal attention to sex or her reducing her life to a constant round of dressmaker, beauty parlour and bridge party.' ’
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 December 1932, Page 2
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160TRIAL MARRIAGES Hokitika Guardian, 17 December 1932, Page 2
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