Book Reviews : Marriage for the Married Dr. Mary Macaulay Delisle 12s. 6d. Sexual Harmony in Marriage J. H. Wallis Routledge & Kegan Paul 14s
| Author | W. Leslie Herbert |
| Published date | 01 September 1965 |
| Date | 01 September 1965 |
| DOI | 10.1177/026455056501100314 |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
the area has an above average quota of
ones) is somewhat daunting. The book
maladjusted children. Hopelessly long
is very readable, but suffers from a some-
waiting lists in the Housing Depart-
what superficial approach, which is not
ments, high rents, (e.g. two very small
surprising in view of its scope. It will
rooms plus a tiny shared sink on the
sell to those who are concerned about
stairs for a mother and seven children
their own marriage, and it may help
at £5 13s. Od. a week; one room and
some people in this concern, but I do not
a recess for a couple and four children
feel it will add much to the knowledge
under five at £4 10s. Od.; an average
of the marriage counsellor or probation
rent for 75 households of £3 6s. Od.),
officer. I do not suppose Dr. Macaulay
one bathroom for 20 families, shared
would expect it to! Incidentally, there
cooking stoves, the presence of a fan-
is a useful appendix in family planning
tastically large proportion of children
and a glossary-remarkable value.
under four in the local population and
John Wallis has a deeper approach. He
insufficient provision for their super-
is rightly concerned to emphasise the
vision, while mothers go to work or
difference between the merely biological
have a rest, are only some of the
or
the descriptive approach and the
pressures which lead to a sense of
emotional experience. His purpose is not
despair, family and matrimonial dis-
&dquo;to explain the ... facts of sex and
integration. illegitimacy and common
reproduction. It is to consider the devel-
assault.
opment of sexual harmony between a
This book does a service to those try-
husband and wife as a vitally important
ing to tackle slum conditions all over
part of their relationship&dquo;. He examines
the country by spotlighting just one
the difficulties experienced in talking
troubled area and showing, with chapter
about sexual harmony-how it differs for
and verse, what standards of living still
various people, the...
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