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may find the necessary responses fully inhibited. Such 

 radical proposals, however, are always upon the assumption 

 that men will be non-resistant and that all women will be 

 ruled by the head rather than otherwise, something biologi- 

 cally improbable. To return to our subject, it appears, then, 

 that divorce occurs in all states of society, regardless of 

 econortii'' status and that a number of factors must be con- 

 sidered in assigning causes to the modern trend in divorce, 

 the chances being that economic factors are the least of 

 them. Man}^ students of tiie subject now regard maladjust- 

 ments in sex life and failure to realize the new ideal of 

 companionable integration as the factors disturbing the 

 stability of the marriage relation. 



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However, so complex a matter as the integration of the 

 sexes cannot be treated adequately in a brief sketch, for 

 there are many other aspects of the subject to be considered 

 before one can form a properly balanced view. Since, however 

 it appears that a change in the degree and direction of sex 

 integration is now under way, one is justified in trying to 

 form some notion of the direction in which modern society is 

 moving. The increasing economic independence of women, or 

 economic integration, has no doubt contributed something 

 to reduce the economic aspect of marriage, and anything 

 that so tends throws the emphasis more and more upon 

 child rearing and otherbiological relations. At the same time 

 our social drift, as shown in education and companionship 

 ideals, has emphasized the intellectual and emotional 

 integration of the sexes generally, encouraging free associa- 

 tion in recreation and uplift pursuits. The suggestion is, 

 therefore, that the future marriage in our society will be a 

 readjustment to biological rather than to economic factors. 



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 Carr-Saunders, a. M. 1922. The Population Problem. Oxford, Clarendon 



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