We need more an aid to avoidance of marital rocks than a rescue, as from a life-boat, after the shipwreck.
There are many forms of advice and help which the teachers and medical practitioners in mental hygiene are now developing and offering which may be used later on, when we are wiser, in this work of preventing families from breaking up.

Regularly constituted "social doctoring" for the prevention, even more than for the treatment of social disease as it manifests itself in family life, is surely called for.
=The Children to be Affected Society's Chief Care.=--Above all, we must place the children affected by any decision that gives society a broken family in the front rank of interest and of protective care.

If the paid attorney were eliminated, divorces would certainly be lessened in number.

If publicity were avoided in all divorce proceedings, much of the harm to children arising from separation of married couples would be avoided.

If, in addition, there were advisory aid to the confused and unhappy, many now drifting to complete division of interest and affection would be enabled to start on again toward better realization of married opportunity.