How to Save the Family

Last year there was one divorce for every three U.S. marriages. What can be done to stop this breaking of families? In last week's Christian Century, Dean John Warren Day of Grace Cathedral (Protestant Episcopal, Topeka, Kans.) proposed a few remedies that he would like to try out. Samples:

P: A federal divorce law, to stop the easy divorces now obtainable in some states.

P: Larger families, with children properly spaced, "so that the young might learn in the family, the most vital social unit, how to get along with other children. . . ."

P: "Overhaul the standards which the motion picture is applying to family living. . . . Altogether too many films give the impression that nothing happens socially in the United States without the aid of alcoholic beverages. . . ."

P: "Do away with all liquor advertising in magazines and newspapers and on the radio. . . ."

P: Courses in sex education for all high-school students.

P: "Make it impossible for any person to file for a divorce until he or she had conferred with [a] county social hygiene director. . . ."

P: Re-establish the family pew "in the sense that the entire family attend church or church school at the same time. . . . This recognition of God in the home ought to include a daily Bible reading and a prayer. . . ."

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