MR. ADAMS: In the State of Connecticut, where there is one divorce in
every nine marriages. I propose to try to reform my part of it.
Want of parental control.
The separation of the young from the old, and the separation of the
sexes in the family.
DR. VINCENT: What do you mean?
I mean that the young people try to get off by themselves, when they
would better mix with the older people; and the result is a tendency to
disintegration of the elements of the family.
Want of helpfulness.
Failure to provide proper literature for the home.
Lack of true parental example.
Failure to supply proper amusements.
Irreverence among young people for older persons.
Too much unnecessary labor; working for fashion, etc. Ladies spend too
much time dressing, and men spend too much time in smoking: too much
tobacco in the family. [Laughter.]
Too much responsibility in the matter of education devolved upon the
wife.
The fallacy that the son is influenced more by the mother than by the
father.
Men spend too much time away from home.
Too much time is spent at home by mothers.