Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 319, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1920 — Divorces in the United States. [ARTICLE]

Divorces in the United States.

The latest report of the United States national census bureau once more discloses not only an increase in the ratio of divorce to marriage, bat in the ratio of divorce to growth of population—ll 2 divorces to every 190,000 people in 1916. as against 84 in 1906 and 72 in 1900. There were 112,039 divorces granted in 1916, concerning 108,702 of which there are exact statistics; of these 39,900, more than * third, were for desertion, with cruelty second, the two combined accounting for" nearly two-thirds (65J per cwt) of all the divorces granted in that year, adultery figuring far behind, and drunkenness lagging in the rear.