THE LIFE WE SEEK

The Life We Seek ~ 455 ~ divorce becomes an ugly necessity. Society has to pay for such separations, for the children then are no better off than orphans. They are alone in the world. With neither father not mother to turn to, such children are unable to take their true place in society. They grow up embittered and unchecked,— in effect, discarded by society. There is rarely any alternative for them but a life of crime. In his book, The Changing Law, Alfred Denning has laid the blame for child and adolescent crime fairly and squarely at the door of broken homes (p. 111). One infamous product of a broken home, who has recently aroused the morbid fascination of the public, is the notorious international criminal, Charles Sobhraj. The root cause of the majority of the ills of modern life lies in personal philosophies and social aims being so often diametrically opposed to each other. What we call crime, corruption and all the other attendant evils are nothing other than the results of any given society’s members setting their sights on material happiness. Whether individuals, groups or nations are concerned, the moment the goal in life