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Marriages are often failures because one or both parties think of it as lust sanctioned by law.

People considering marriage often know little and care less for harmony of minds and ideals.

People often, as we have seen, enter into marriage with such different social, racial or religious backgrounds that complete adjustment is practically impossible.

Marriages are often failures because there is an unwillingness on the part of one or the other, or of both, to adjust one's self to the conditions. It always takes a great deal of unselfish love to make a marriage a success.

Marriage often shocks a young girl beyond words, due to the fact that she does not know what it involves. Its intimacy is unimagined. Some will never get over the shock that comes from ignorance.

Therefore education for marriage is indispensable, and those who instruct girls and young women