Psychology of sex - Total No. of Records in System :: 2032

PSYCHOLOGY OF SEXpossible to approve of facility for divorce as an abstractprinciple and yet to deprecate resort to it. Moreover, asecond marriage may prove even more unfortunate thanthe first and equally unfruitful. Divorce is,further, at thebest a confession of failure in the most vital of personalmatters, and even at the worst there are probably bondsof union between the partners which cannot easily betreated as of no account because there do not happen tobe children. Married people who wish for divorce becausethey have no children usually, if the full truth wereknown, wish to be divorced because they feel incompatible.So that for them the problemof childlessness isreally part of a larger problem.(3)To adopt a child. This is the solution which mostreadily presents itself, and with sound judgmentit worksadmirably, all the more since now, at all events in England,it can be put on a firm legal basis. The marriageisnot broken but probably strengthened, and a real child isfor whom the wife can be a mother in all butprovidedthe physical sense. There is even an element of socialservice involved, for the reasonable prospect of a happyfuture is bestowed upon a child who might otherwisehave proved a burden not only to its parents but to itselfand to the community. To many women, even with a fulland intellectual life, the adopted child has proved anunspeakable blessing and a constant source of happiness.There are obvious precautions to be taken if childadoptionis to prove successful. Not only must the childbe taken when quite young, but the transfer must beabsolute and complete. The chief questionis of health andheredity. To neglect consideration of the child's parentageand ancestry may lead to bitter results. A child shouldnever be adopted until all the ascertainable facts of its[3oo]