Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1907 — Why American Marriages Fail. [ARTICLE]

Why American Marriages Fail.

Again a woman is finding fault with American wives and complaining of the failure of American marriages. This time it is Anna A. Rogers in the Atlantic Monthly; who says that "(he excessive education physical coddling of young women,” and their devotion to physical culture and sports, has evolved a hybrid feminine who is a cross between a magnified, rather unmannerly boy and a spoiled, exacting creature who sincerely loves herself alone. Thus, explains this sociologist, "a slipshod, nnchivalrous companionship” has grown up between the sexes which after marriage is found to be "a cause for tears or temper.” One contributory cause, she Bays, is the existence of 2,921 courts empowered to grant divorces.