CHAPTER I
MODERN ATTITUDE TOWARDS MARRIAGE
Marriages in our day are entered into very lightly by many people.
And by such people they are quickly dissolved if the marriage ceases to be pleasant to the married partners.
What about the institution of marriage which our ancestors—possibly we ourselves—considered a holy and sacred relationship to be dissolved only by death or infidelity?
Well, for many that idea is like an old piece of furniture belonging in the attic. The continuance of marriage is for them merely a matter of whim or caprice.
We live in another age. People dare question anything.
The world in our generation is trying to think out from new angles every human problem.
The present investigation of marriage is a part of the universal inquiry in this new age into the
