The Good Housekeeping Marriage Book

The Good Housekeeping Marriage Book

The articles that are printed in this book made what was in my opinion the most important, the most constructive, series on a single subject that Good Housekeeping has published in the quarter century and more that I was its editor. And they might so easily never have been writtenjust a little item in a newspaper missed, or its significance overlooked, and these sincere and helpful articles would still be locked up in the minds and hearts of the men and women who wrote them. For it all happened just like that. Students in one of the larger California universities asked that a course in marriage relations be givenand a New York newspaper heralded it with a stick of type over about page 10. Somehow the item impressed me deeply. Here were thousands of students of both sexes, thinking of marriage, physically impelled toward marriage, admitting that they wanted more information about marriage before undertaking it. Add to these students the hundreds of thousands in other colleges and to them the millions of young men and young women outside of collegeand there was Youth itself, visioning marriage as the Great Adventure, which no one should miss, but about which there were grave reports. I have heard lots about Youth in recent yearsits lackadaisical attitude toward all serious things, its tendency to look the moral code straight in the eye and smash it, its belief that chastity isn't worth its cost or success in marriage worth working for. And I had disbelieved much that I had heard, it having been my privilege to work with and for young people in high school and college over a long period of years. I knew that Youth is looking for something better than it is being given in either precept or example. And so this request of a group of college young people seemed to me to be both a challenge and an opportunity. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 20830
Author: Bigelow, William F. (William Frederick)
Release Date: Mar 15, 2007
Format: eBook
Language: English

Contributors

Editor: Bigelow, William F. (William Frederick), 1879-1966