as a result of divorce made too easy. Consider this chilling forecast.

When we pass the year 2000, we will see two groups of working age

adults emerging. One group will have received psychological, social,

economic, educational and moral benefits and the other group will have

been denied them all. The first group will have grown up with a father

present in the house and the second group will have not had a father

present. The groups will be roughly equal in size. In order to be

divorced in my parent's era of the fifties, one mate had to be proven

adulterous. Legally, one party was deemed guilty and one was innocent.

That finding affected each party financially and socially enough so

that most couples tried hard not to divorce. In Canada the rate of

divorce in 1951 was one out of twenty couples. In the late sixties,

the "sexual revolution" began and couples rebelled against the

constraints of marriage. Movie makers and journalists became rich

extolling the virtues of free love and liberation.

The addition of more grounds for divorce and the elimination

of the need to appear in court made it easier for couple

Have-nots: We need a credible national agenda to reverse the trend of

divorce rate has dipped slightly. The stigma is almost gone. Books are

and the divorce rate doubled, the same as it did in Canada. Seventy

Report/Western Report, 28 Aug 1995, pp. 28

the situation is dangerous for the mother and children. I feel couples

divorced families become mothers versus 11% of girls from traditional

fathers being superfluous to family life.; Home edition, Los Angeles

marriage. Applaud organizations such as Al Gore's "Father to Father"

bring money to the family. As a result, they may fall behind in their

and loving but never underestimate the power of fear to keep them in

The father can yield the power to invoke fear among children.

Retired Edmonton Police Service Superintendent Chris Braiden, notes

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