To prevent that tragedy is a social duty than which none is more pressing or more open to social effort.
=Turning From Compulsory to Attractive Methods of Reform.=--To undertake that social task, the psychology of social effort must be turned from compulsive methods of prevention of legal divorce, when such divorce is sought, to ways of making marriage choices wiser, marriage experience more sane and better balanced by sense of obligation to the nearer and more remote of social relations, and by putting at the command of all, the helpful sympathy and the social guidance that can alone hold to firm and noble lines the wavering and the weak.
QUESTIONS ON THE BROKEN FAMILY 1.

Is the admitted increase in divorce wholly a testimony to moral degeneracy?
If so, what can be done about it?
If not, what else does it indicate?
2.

What are the main points to work for in order to reduce the number of divorces, and to remove the social evils of which divorces are only the symptom?
3.

Should the social psychology be directed principally toward preventing people from getting divorce or from remarrying after divorce, or toward making marriage so generally successful that fewer people want to separate?
4.

What is specially needed in education both of youth and the adult in the United States in the interest of family stability and family success?
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