Marriage and Divorce
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The Report of the Royal Commission on Marriage and Divorce (Comd. 9678, March 1956) is a document whose importance is not only to be measured by its size-?344 pages of lucid text and 51 pages of interesting appendices. To us in the Mental Health field it is also a valuable index of the distance travelled by responsible people outside our own ranks towards the incorporation of socio-psychological concepts and practices in thinking about this most fundamental problem. Very adequate and fair summaries of the main features of the Report have appeared in the Press, but even these cannot be a substitute for perusal of the vast and diligent labour of the Commission. We do not conceive it to be our duty to restate these here. It is a monument in clear words to the inherent
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