The marriage crisis / by Ernest R. Groves.

  • Groves, Ernest R. (Ernest Rutherford), 1877-1946.
Date:
1928
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Credit: The marriage crisis / by Ernest R. Groves. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    always to be found in human undertakings. They may be reasons for the examination of an institution, but they are not in themselves arguments for any specific solution. They cannot be made to enforce any new scheme until it be demonstrated that the existing fail¬ ures are due to conditions which the new pro¬ gram will remove, and that as a consequence of the change no greater difficulties of adjustment are likely to come about. This is something that those dissatisfied with the prevailing form of marriage do not appear to realize. They forget that matrimony is as likely to register human failures as it is to produce personal un¬ happiness that is due to a defect in the form of the relationship for which the institution can itself be blamed. Personalities so lop-sided as to be unable to function with satisfaction to themselves or any¬ one with whom they have dealings are scarcely likely to be transformed by the magic of mar¬ riage into balanced characters, ready for the give-and-take of everyday life at close quar-