Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 207, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1917 — Cupid Made Many Poor Matches During Past Year. [ARTICLE]

Cupid Made Many Poor Matches During Past Year.

Almost every third marriage in Indiana went wrong in 1916, according to a tabulated report made fry H. A. Roberts, state statistician. The report shows that one divorce was filed for every three and a half marriages performed. The tabulations show that the total number of divorces asked during the year in the 92 counties of the state was 9,773, and the number of marriages 33,522. The number of divorces granted was 5,778—4,377 to wives and 1,899 to husbands. Most of the divorces granted were on the grounds of cruel and inhuman treatment. Wives obtain 1,900 decrees on that charged and husbands 444. Husbands were granted more divorces on statutory charges than wives, there being 248 to husbands and 208 to wives on that charge. Abandonment by husbands brought about 773 divorces and by wives 444. Drunkenness was the cause of 434 divorces being grnated to wives, but only 30 to husbands. Failure to provide by the husbands gave 700 wives their freedom.