MARRIAGE GUIDANCE
VALUE IN DIVORCE PREVENTION WORK OF BRITISH COUNCILS P.A. WELLINGTON, Dec. 3. The first step towards preventing an increased divorce rate is adequate preparation for marriage, in the view of a former president of the Methodist Church of New Zealand, the 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 studying the work of the Marriage Guidance Council, and said 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 taking lectures on education and preparation for marriage, marriage problems in the magistrate’s court, marriage as a sex relationship, marriage as a physiological relationship, the approach to parenthood, juvenile delinquency and the family, and the ethical and spiritual basis of marriage guidance. Similar councils, Mr Blamires said, had been set up in South Australia, Sydney, and South Africa.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26635, 4 December 1947, Page 2
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