1942

small group of counselors establish American Association of Marriage Counselors, “the first professional organization dedicated solely to marriage counseling.” “The war marriage phenomenon, however, gave marriage experts an entrée onto an expanded public stage (Celello, 58). Marriage experts portrayed themselves as vital to the war effort (62). “This idea that anticipating and coping with postwar disappointment in their marriages was women’s work became a common refrain in wartime marriage discourse” (63). . . . “in the postwar years, marriage was properly women’s primary occupation and the very fate of the institution rested on their shoulders” (65).