Philip Gibbs attempted to bring the readers' attention to the strange significance of the Eighth Year of married life through this work. He stated that, in the Royal Commission on Divorce, as shown by statistics of domestic tragedy, there comes a great crisis between the couple during this period in the marriage that often leads to separation. He examined each year in marriage and gave arguments supporting this claim. This work made it to the list of the most influential works in domenstic literature.
Excerpt from The Eighth Year: A Vital Problem of Married Life IT was Sir Francis J eune, afterwards Lord St. Helier, and President of the Divorce Court, who first called attention to the strange significance of the Eighth Year of married life. The Eighth Year, he said, is the most dangerous year in the adventure of marriage. Afterwards, in the recent Royal Commis sion on Divorce, this curious fact was again alluded to in the evidence, and it has been shown by statistics of domestic tragedy, by hundreds of sordid little dramas, that at this period in the partnership of husbands and wives there comes, in many cases, a great crisis, leading often to moral disaster. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
