This is an entry in a year-long project to post-blog the demobilisation experience for British servicemen at the end of the Second World War. See here for an introduction to the project and here for a brief overview of the demobilisation process.
John Bull this week includes a long account of the crisis in British marriage brought about by wartime and postwar social upheavals:
One marriage out of every five in this country today is likely to end in divorce or legal separation ... now, the appalling congestion in the courts, the staggering increase in the numbers of broken marriages, are things that seem almost to be taken for granted. What has gone wrong?
[The problem is] war strain and the accumulated frustration of six weary years of worry. A solicitor who handles hundreds of cases will tell you that an analysis of most defended suits just now gives two main causes of the break: people are over-tired; people want to put the ugly years behind them. But they confuse the issue, blaming their domestic partner for what are really the world's ills.
A rather surprising, but recurring factor is the number of husbands who complain that they have to cook their own breakfasts. From such pettiness comes so many broken homes!
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