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Trugh THE NATIONAL PAPER THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1929. Marriage As An Experiment

TT is the boast of modern civilization that the moral standard of the people was never higher than now, but m view of the ever increasing udmber of young married people who accept their responsibilities m the spirit of a temporary alliance, and who are prepared, at the slightest excuse, to break the ties, it seems an empty boast.

One day m each week m all the main centres a magistrate is fully occupied dealing with what are commonly termed ' ' agony cases, and any disputes that cannot be dealt with on this special day, are set aside for special hearing.

The number of matrimonial misalliances that come before the courts is. steadily increasing. The fundamental: causes vary, but the main one is inconvpatibility of temperament. Young people become enamored of the thought of marriage and blindly rush m where angels would fear to tread, before they are fully cognisant of the seriousness of the step they are undertaking. At the back of the minds of -many of them lingers the thought that the step is not irrevocable. Modern cities present many distractions to young married men and women who, not fully realizing what is demanded of them m the matter of give and take, at the first sign of trouble are too ready to part before they have given married life a fair trial. Magistrates should clearly impress upon defaulting and irresponsible husbands that they canno t, with impunity, cast their wives as a burden on the State or on the Charitable Aid Boards. "Wives, too, must realize they cannot petition the courts with impunity. In a recent case heard m a New Zealand court a young husband asserted that he was not prepared to support his wife and would cast her aside like a, worn-out piece of clothing. , It was quite m accordance with his view that the Charitable Aid Board should keep her, nor did he mind if every ratepayer m the city had to pay the cost of his wife's maintenance, so long as he didn't. If marriages are entered into with such ideas as these m the minds of bride or. .bridegroom, is it any wonder that magist2'ates work overtime trying to straighten out matrimonial tangles? .

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NZ Truth, Issue 1210, 7 February 1929, Page 6

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382

Trugh THE NATIONAL PAPER THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1929. Marriage As An Experiment NZ Truth, Issue 1210, 7 February 1929, Page 6

Trugh THE NATIONAL PAPER THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1929. Marriage As An Experiment NZ Truth, Issue 1210, 7 February 1929, Page 6

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