Finding the love that works

A well-known New England probate and family judge, Edward M. Ginsberg, spoke recently about some of the divorce cases he had handled in his fourteen years on the bench. According to a Boston Globe reporter, he cited the "unraveling of societal values and standards, the confusion of male and female roles, and selfish behavior that leads people to put their own welfare before that of their children."

Mr. Ginsberg remarked, "It's awful. ... The whole thing. The intangibles. What the future effect will be of all these broken families, I shudder to think." He said it sometimes reminds him of Rome "just before it all came undone."

Certainly there is an urgent need to look at the whole question of sensuality, indulgence, and promiscuity, in or outside the marriage bond, that tears at the moral fabric of society. We all long to love and to be loved, but too often people look for satisfaction and love in all the wrong places. So where can we find those relationships that are founded on a more solid basis and bring stability to families?

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