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Marriage ought not to be a lottery, only a few people drawing prizes. Everyone ought to draw a prize.

We have tried to analyze unhappy marriages and see why they are unhappy. We have made up our minds that the way to take the element of chance out of marriage is to learn about it and about ourselves and about the one in whom we are interested before we marry. After marriage we invariably learn about these things, but then it is too late to prevent trouble.

Can it be done? We believe that not only ought young people to be educated for marriage, but that they can be educated in this matter successfully, successfully enough to avoid a large percentage of the trouble that comes after marriage.

Certainly the subject is more important than almost any other that young people now study in high school and college.