We must learn how to make society in general work toward the ends of stability and social order in the family, as in other social institutions, and by methods that reverence and secure personal freedom and fit well into a democratic state.
=Free Love Not Admissible.=--Professor Ellwood says that "while material civilization is mainly a control of the food process, moral civilization involves a control of the reproductive process, that is, over the birth and rearing of children." He argues from this that social organization "precludes anything like the toleration of promiscuity or even of free love." Most students of social history will agree with this statement.

We may, therefore, say that the attitude of law, of custom, and of social standards, must be that of demanding legalization of permitted sex-relationship, and the effort to make legal sex-relationship permanent where possible without sacrifice of the substance of family life to its outward form.
=Must Work Toward Desired Permanency in Marriage.=--This means a quite new approach to the problems of marriage and divorce.

It means the inauguration of legal and educational mechanisms in the interest of making people want to stay married, rather than toward an effort to make people stay wedded when they wish to separate.

In this, more, even than in any other field of social effort, we should take heed to and obey the advice of Dr.Lester Ward "to use attractive rather than compulsory methods of reform." =Needed Changes in Legal and Social Approach to Divorce.=--What are the main points of change in our legal and social approach to the divorce situation, which the modern need for social control through democratic measures demands most clearly and strongly?
They are, first, a longer period of delay between reception and granting of the request of a man and a woman for a license to marry.

Several State legislatures are now considering statutes which require an "interval of three days" between the application for and the granting of marriage licenses.