The members of a Committee of the British Medical Association, in giving evidence before the Royal Commission on Marriage and Divorce, have recendy made proposals to add new grounds for divorce. The surprising thing is not the audacity of these marriage reformers, but their timidity. If it is true that the ancient Christian institution, in all its rigidity, is out of date and unworkable in the modern world, then the new circumstances should be studied and really sweeping changes made. The alarming increase in divorce makes it abundandy clear that all this tinkering with the ancient institution does not make it more workable, but less workable. And yet it is to preserve the institution that the changes are made. The committee say that they wish to stress the necessity for ‘permanent and stable partnerships in marriage’, and maintain ‘that the greatest possible number of sound family units is essential to the nation s health and wellbeing’, and would support ‘every effort to ensure that marriage as an institution is both stable and permanent’. Without wishing to call in question their sincerity, it must be pointed out that it can only be utter confusion of mind and blindness to the realities that can lead people, who value marriage for what it should be, to take steps that have produced, and will produce, results that are the exact opposite of their hopes. Marriage is indivisible. On no grounds whatever is there any sense or soundness in trying to make it more permanent and stable for some by making it less permanent and stable for others. They are only two views that have any prima facie case for consideration, and the ‘easier divorce’ policy is not one of them.