In Re the Marriage of Callahan

UHLENHOPP, Justice.

This appeal in a marriage dissolution proceeding involves the custody of the two minor children of Dwayne Dean and Roberta Jane Callahan.

The parties were married when Dwayne was 19 and Roberta was IS. Two children were born to them: Patricia in 1963 and Michael in 1968. Dwayne first worked for Roberta’s father, selling hearing aids. He thereafter worked at construction in order to make more money. Following that he worked in a grocery store, and still later he took management training with S.S. Kresge Company.

At the time of trial in April 1973, Dwayne had worked for Kresge…