UK Wedding News
30/04/2012
Sir Paul Coleridge, who sits in the Family Division, has launched the Marriage Foundation in a bid to help individuals, families and society.
Speaking to BBC Radio 4's Today he said: "There comes a time when sometimes you have to speak out in circumstances where you feel you know more than anybody involved in the debate.
"I happen to think that the family judiciary have a contribution to make to this debate. Most of us have watched as the situation has gradually got more and more and more appalling and out of control and there comes a time when it is, I think, irresponsible to remain quiet.
"In terms of the impact that family breakdown is having on society, nobody - and I emphasise that - nobody has the experience that the family judiciary have.
"If we remain quiet, it is like doctors who see epidemics going through their surgeries and say 'We can't make a comment on that because it might be said to be commenting on the way people are living'.
"This is now happening across Britain - and indeed Europe and North America - on a scale we have never seen before and the impact it has on the whole of society is very, very real and dramatic and we need to highlight it and do something about it."
The Judge continued: "I normally find the people who are in there (Hello) are in my court within about a year or two.
"What I criticise - what I call the Hello magazine, Hollywood approach to this whole business - is that there is still, or maybe more than there was, a completely unrealistic expectation about long-term relationships and marriage in particular, that if you find the right ideal partner that's all that matters and things will just carry on from there on and you will be divinely happy.
"We all know, all of us who have been in relationships - whether married or unmarried - for a long time is that the only way that they are made to work and the only way that they become really qualitatively good is by absolutely grinding away at it.
"That's when people find that, actually, if they get through the difficulties and do get the help, they will in fact end up with a product that is really worth having."
(GK)
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Judge Hits Out At 'Hello Magazine Marriages'
A High Court judge has hit out what he calls the 'Hello magazine approach' to marriage which he has attributed to an increase in divorce and family breakdown.Sir Paul Coleridge, who sits in the Family Division, has launched the Marriage Foundation in a bid to help individuals, families and society.
Speaking to BBC Radio 4's Today he said: "There comes a time when sometimes you have to speak out in circumstances where you feel you know more than anybody involved in the debate.
"I happen to think that the family judiciary have a contribution to make to this debate. Most of us have watched as the situation has gradually got more and more and more appalling and out of control and there comes a time when it is, I think, irresponsible to remain quiet.
"In terms of the impact that family breakdown is having on society, nobody - and I emphasise that - nobody has the experience that the family judiciary have.
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"If we remain quiet, it is like doctors who see epidemics going through their surgeries and say 'We can't make a comment on that because it might be said to be commenting on the way people are living'.
"This is now happening across Britain - and indeed Europe and North America - on a scale we have never seen before and the impact it has on the whole of society is very, very real and dramatic and we need to highlight it and do something about it."
The Judge continued: "I normally find the people who are in there (Hello) are in my court within about a year or two.
"What I criticise - what I call the Hello magazine, Hollywood approach to this whole business - is that there is still, or maybe more than there was, a completely unrealistic expectation about long-term relationships and marriage in particular, that if you find the right ideal partner that's all that matters and things will just carry on from there on and you will be divinely happy.
"We all know, all of us who have been in relationships - whether married or unmarried - for a long time is that the only way that they are made to work and the only way that they become really qualitatively good is by absolutely grinding away at it.
"That's when people find that, actually, if they get through the difficulties and do get the help, they will in fact end up with a product that is really worth having."
(GK)
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