Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 November 1908 — WE LEAD THE WORLD [ARTICLE]

WE LEAD THE WORLD

In the Divorce Rate Uncle Sam Shown, a Higher Figure Than Any Other Nation. Washington, Nov. 27.—Higher divorce rate in the United States than in any of the foreign countries where statistics are available is announced by the census bureau, which in a bulletin says that at least one marriage in twelve in this country ultimately terminates in divorce. The report covers the twenty years from 1887 to 1900. inclusive. From 1887 to 1906 there were 12,832.044 marriages and 945.625 divorces, against 328,716 divorces for the preceding twenty years. Divorce is now two and a half times as common, compared with the married population, as it was forty years ago. Utah and Connecticut are the only two states showing decreased divorce rate. Desertion caused 38.9 per cent of the total divorces In the twenty years, almost half of the divorces being granted to the husband for thia cause, and about one-third to the wife for the same cause.