DOOMED MARRIAGES.
ASTOUNDING PERCENTAGE. UNITED STATES FIGURES.
Fifteen out of every 100 marriages in the United States ultimately end in divorce. This startling disclosure ■'is made by the Census Bureau, which is responsible for. the further revelation that divorces have been increase i.ng in the United States foe mol-e than 25 years at a far greater rate than the growth of population. The; latest, figuffes, for 1926, reveal 1,202,574 marriages and 180,8'53 divorces, Both marriages and divorces touch new high levels in that year, but whereas the divorce a’ate increased the marriage rate declined from the high peak of 1920.
The majority of wives, obtaining divorces get decrees because of the •wuelty of tfreir husbands or because of desertion. Nevada had the highest number of divorces, whilst New York State had the lowest, owing to the; strictness of its laws.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5302, 20 July 1928, Page 4
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140DOOMED MARRIAGES. Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIX, Issue 5302, 20 July 1928, Page 4
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